St Thomas' Church, Blackpool

St Thomas' Church, Blackpool
Location Blackpool, Lancashire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Previous denomination Evangelical
Website stthomasblackpool.org
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

  1. ↑ St Thomas, Blackpool, Church of England, retrieved 30 August 2012
  2. ↑ 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.
  3. ↑ Brandwood et al. 2012, p. 253.
  4. 1 2 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 

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

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