Description

SJ 41 SW PONTESBURY C.P. CRUCKTON

1/176 Church of St Thomas
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- II

Parochial chapel, now redundant. 1840 by Edward Haycock. Coursed local
limestone rubble, machine tile roofs. Plain lancet style; nave, chancel,
south vestry, west porch and bellcote. Nave: buttressed in 4 bays with lean-
to vestry in east bay of south side; windows all broad lancets; gabled west
porch with gabled bellcote (housing single bell) above. Short chancel of one
bay with broad lancet in east wall. Interior: retains its original open
benches and west gallery supported on plain cast-iron columns; most of the
other fittings are late C19/early C20; plain reading desk, stone pulpit with
marble shafts and slender octagonal font all of c.1880. The base of the
communion table is mid-C17; early C17 oak panelling in north and south walls
added when chancel was re-modelled internally c.1929. Erected on a site given
by Thomas Harries of Cruckton in 1838 and built at a cost of £949 (raised by
public subscription), the chapel formerly served the second portion of Pontesbury
parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.290.

Listing NGR: SJ4326310133

External Links

• Historic England Listing
• Wikidata Q26471512

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Recommended Books

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  [(Bedfordshire, Huntingdon and Peterborough)] [By (author) Nikolaus Pevsner] published on (January, 1968)
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  Norfolk 1: Norwich and North-East: Norwich and North-east v. 1 (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Specifications for Building Conservation: Volume 1: External Structure: Practical Examples v. 2
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  Listed Buildings and Other Heritage Assets
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  Hampshire: South (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)
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  Cumbria: Cumberland, Westmorland and Furness (Pevsner Architectural Guides: Buildings of England)