St Thomas' Church, Blackpool
St Thomas' Church, Blackpool | |
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Location | Blackpool, Lancashire |
Country | England |
Denomination | Church of England |
Previous denomination | Evangelical |
Website |
stthomasblackpool |
Architecture | |
Status | Parish church |
Functional status | Active |
Architect(s) | Henry Paley |
Years built | 1930–1932 |
Administration | |
Deanery | Deanery of Blackpool |
Archdeaconry | Archdeaconry of Lancaster |
Diocese | Diocese of Blackburn |
Province | Province of York |
Clergy | |
Vicar(s) | The Revd Dr Rosalyn F T Murphy |
St Thomas' Church is in Caunce Street, Blackpool, Lancashire, England. It is an active Anglican parish church in the Deanery of Blackpool, the Archdeaconry of Lancaster and the Diocese of Blackburn.[1]
The church was built in 1930–32 and designed by the Lancaster architect Henry Paley of Austin and Paley, and cost £10,326 (equivalent to £650,000 in 2015).[2][3] It is constructed in brick with stone dressings, and has windows with mixed Decorated and Perpendicular tracery.[4] Only the east end of the church and 3½ bays of the nave and aisles were completed. Brandwood and his co-authors consider that the interior is "of dignity and with several inventive touches".[5] Because it was never completed, Hartwell and Pevsner in the Buildings of England series describe it as "a stump of a church".[4] It continues to be an active church in the Evangelical tradition.[6]
The vicar is the Revd Rosalyn F. T. Murphy.[7]
See also
References
- ↑ St Thomas, Blackpool, Church of England, retrieved 30 August 2012
- ↑ 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.
- ↑ Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 253.
- 1 2 Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 157.
- ↑ Brandwood et al. 2012, pp. 184, 186.
- ↑ Welcome, St Thomas' Church, Blackpool, retrieved 30 August 2012
- ↑ St Thomas' Church website.
Bibliography
- Brandwood, Geoff; Austin, Tim; Hughes, John; Price, James (2012), The Architecture of Sharpe, Paley and Austin, Swindon: English Heritage, ISBN 978-1-84802-049-8
- Hartwell, Clare; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009) [1969], Lancashire: North, The Buildings of England, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-12667-9
External links
Coordinates: 53°49′17″N 3°02′23″W / 53.8215°N 3.0396°W
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