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Latitude: 53.7172 / 53°43'1"N
Longitude: -1.6266 / 1°37'35"W
OS Eastings: 424741
OS Northings: 424596
OS Grid: SE247245
Mapcode National: GBR KT2G.N7
Mapcode Global: WHC9Q.ZTLP
Plus Code: 9C5WP98F+V9
Entry Name: Church of St Thomas
Listing Date: 13 January 1984
Grade: II
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1134644
English Heritage Legacy ID: 340922
ID on this website: 101134644
Location: St Thomas's Church, Lamplands, Kirklees, West Yorkshire, WF17
County: Kirklees
Electoral Ward/Division: Batley East
Parish: Non Civil Parish
Built-Up Area: Batley
Traditional County: Yorkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): West Yorkshire
Church of England Parish: Batley St Thomas
Church of England Diocese: Leeds
Tagged with: Church building
SE 22 SW BATLEY MB GROSVENOR ROAD
BATLEY
4/17 Church of St Thomas
II
Gothic Revival Church in Early English style. 1867-8 by Walter
Hanstock. Slightly pitched faced stone with quoins and ashlar
dressings. Steeply pitched slate roof. 5 bay nave with lean-to
buttressed aisles. 3 bay chancel with vestry wing on north side.
3 tier tower in south west corner, with slender stone spire. Paired
stained glass lancets, slightly cusped to aisles, and similar, smaller
lights to clerestory. Those to aisles have hood moulds with figure
head and foliated stops. 2-light stained glass chancel windows with
simple bar tracery. 5-light cusped geometric east window with
sexfoil in head.
3-tier tower has reducing angle buttresses with off-sets. Paired
louvred openings to bell chamber, with heavily moulded arches on round
colonnettes with foliated capitals, and sexfoil in heads. Perforated
parapet with octagonal pinnacles, and gargoyles. Blind oculus to
each 2nd tier face, presumably for clock. Entrance on south side with
heavily moulded arch on round colonnettes with foliated capitals. Similar
entrance at west end of nave with 4-light geometrical window over.
Interior: North and South arcades with double chamfered arches on
columns with foliated capitals. Tall chancel arch on engaged colonnettes
with richly carved capitals, supported on fluted tapering corbels.
Hammer beam roof. Carved stone reredos. Octagonal marble font.
Listing NGR: SE2474124596
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