- St Thomas' Church, Coventry
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St Thomas' Church, Coventry, was in Albany Road, Coventry, West Midlands, England. It was designated by English Heritage as a Grade II listed building, but by 1973 was no longer in ecclesiastical use.[1]
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History
The church was designed by the Lancaster architects Sharpe and Paley, and was built in 1848–49.[2] The foundation stone was laid on 2 March 1848, and the church was consecrated on 7 August 1849 by the Bishop of Coventry. The cost of the building was £3,721 (£300,000 as of 2011).[3] The stone for the church was provided by Lord Leigh from a quarry on his estate at Stoneleigh Abbey.[4] The church was demolished in 1976.[5][6]
Architecture
The architectural style of the church was Decorated. Its plan consisted of a five-bay nave with a clerestory, north and south aisles, a three-bay chancel with vestries, a north porch, and a northwest bell turret. The bell turret was octagonal, surmounted by a cross, and decorated with crocket-like round ornaments. The east window had three main lights, the windows along the sides of the aisles, two lights, and the west window, four lights above which were two quatrefoils and a large sexfoil. There were five windows on each side of the clerestory. Inside the church the open timber roof of the nave was supported by corbels in the form of angels carrying shields.[4]
See also
- List of works by Sharpe and Paley
References
- ^ "Images of England: Church of St Thomas, Albany Road, Coventry". English Heritage. http://www.imagesofengland.org.uk/details/default.aspx?id=218402. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
- ^ Price, James (1998), Sharpe, Paley and Austin: A Lancaster Architectural Practice 1836–1942, Lancaster: Centre for North-West Regional Studies, p. 70, ISBN 1-86220-054-8
- ^ UK CPI inflation numbers based on data available from Lawrence H. Officer (2010) "What Were the UK Earnings and Prices Then?" MeasuringWorth.
- ^ a b Hughes, John M. (2010), Edmund Sharpe: Man of Lancaster, John M. Hughes, pp. 222–225
- ^ "Kenilworth Road Conservation Area". Coventry Walks. http://www.coventry-walks.org.uk/conservation-areas/kenilworth-road.html. Retrieved 21 June 2010.
- ^ "Coventry in Photographs". http://images.fotopic.net/12oaki.jpg.
Categories:- Former churches in England
- Grade II listed churches
- Grade II listed buildings in the West Midlands
- Religious buildings completed in 1849
- 19th-century church buildings
- Sharpe and Paley buildings
- Gothic Revival architecture in England
- History of Coventry
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