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St Thomas' Church, Stockton Heath 
St Thomas' Church, Stockton Heath, from the southeastLocation in Cheshire
St Thomas' Church, Stockton HeathCoordinates: 53°22′20″N 2°34′57″W / 53.3723°N 2.5825°W OS grid reference SJ 614 864 Location Stockton Heath, Warrington, Cheshire Country England Denomination Anglican Website St Thomas' and St Mary Magdalene's History Dedication St Thomas Architecture Status Parish church Functional status Active Heritage designation Grade II Designated 23 December 1983 Architect(s) Paley and Austin Architectural type Church Style Gothic Revival Completed 1868 Specifications Materials Sandstone,
Westmorland slate roofsAdministration Parish St Thomas, Stockton Heath Deanery Great Budworth Archdeaconry Chester Diocese Chester Province York Clergy Vicar(s) Rev Michael Ridley Curate(s) Rev Jane Proudfoot Assistant priest Rev Helen Houston Laity Churchwarden(s) Sue Burke, Val Heywood St Thomas' Church, Stockton Heath is in Stockton Heath, to the south of Warrington, Cheshire, England. The church has been designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building,[1] and is an active Anglican parish church in the diocese of Chester, the archdeaconry of Chester and the deanery of Great Budworth.[2]
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History
The present church was built in 1868 on the site of a former church built in 1838.[1] The architects were the Lancaster partnership of Paley and Austin.[3]
Architecture
It is constructed in pinkish-red sandstone with Westmorland slate roofs. Its plan consists of a four-bay nave with a south aisle under a parallel ridged roof, a south porch, a north transept, a north vestry, a two-bay chancel and a west tower. The tower is in four stages with an octagonal southeast turret and an embattled parapet.[1]
The chancel is decorated with richly-coloured patterned tilework and the reredos is of marble and embossed patterned tiles.[1] The organ was built around 1880 by Young and Sons and rebuilt in 1963 by Rushworth and Dreaper of Liverpool.[4]
See also
- List of ecclesiastical works by Paley and Austin
References
- ^ a b c d "Church of St Thomas, Stockton Heath", The National Heritage List for England (English Heritage), 2011, http://list.english-heritage.org.uk/resultsingle.aspx?uid=1135939, retrieved 7 May 2011
- ^ St Thomas, Stockton Heath, Church of England, http://www.achurchnearyou.com/stockton-heath-st-thomas/, retrieved 27 January 2011
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 87, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ Stockton Heath, St. Thomas, British Institute of Organ Studies, http://www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=N04315, retrieved 17 August 2008
Categories:- Religious buildings completed in 1868
- 19th-century Anglican church buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in Cheshire
- Church of England churches in Cheshire
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in Cheshire
- Diocese of Chester
- Paley and Austin buildings
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