St Thomas' Church, Blackpool

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 (£630,000 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

  1. ↑ St Thomas, Blackpool, Church of England, retrieved 30 August 2012
  2. ↑ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Gregory Clark (2014), "What Were the British Earnings and Prices Then? (New Series)" MeasuringWorth.
  3. ↑ Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 253.
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hartwell & Pevsner 2009, p. 157.
  5. ↑ Brandwood et al. 2012, pp. 184, 186.
  6. ↑ Welcome, St Thomas' Church, Blackpool, retrieved 30 August 2012
  7. ↑ 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

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Coordinates: 53°49′17″N 3°02′23″W / 53.8215°N 3.0396°W