St Thomas' Church, Blackburn

Coordinates: 53°44′51″N 2°27′52″W / 53.7475°N 2.4645°W St Thomas' Church was an Anglican parish church in Blackburn, Lancashire, England.^[1] The church was situated on the eastern side of Lambeth Street, between Billinge Street and Skiddaw Street.^[2] It was designed by the Lancaster architect E. G. Paley. The first plan had been prepared in 1859, but the church was not built until 1864–65. The first design was in brick, but the patron insisted on its being in stone. Originally the plan had been to seat 766 people, but this was later increased to 1,054. The church cost £4,469 (equivalent to £400,000 in 2015).^[3] The church closed in 1977^[1] and has since been demolished.^[4][5]

See also

• List of ecclesiastical works by E. G. Paley

References

1. GenUKI - St Thomas, Blackburn- Church of England Accessed 2014-06-03
2. Old Maps Accessed 2014-06-03
3. UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2016), "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
4. Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, p. 221, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
5. Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, pp. 72–73, ISBN 1-86220-054-8