Former Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Manchester local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 October 1974. A C18 Church. 4 related planning applications.
Former Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- gilded-solder-ivy
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Manchester
- Constituency
- Manchester Rusholme MP: Afzal Khan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 October 1974
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Church of St Thomas, Ardwick Green North
- OS grid reference
- SJ 851 973
- Coordinates
- 53.47243, -2.22466
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Former Church of St Thomas, located in Ardwick, Manchester, is a church that has been converted into a community services centre. It was originally built in 1741, widened in 1777, and extended eastwards in 1831, with a tower added in 1836 by William Hayley. The building is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond, featuring some sandstone dressings, and has a rectangular plan with a west porch and tower.
The church exhibits a simple Georgian style, highlighted by an Italian campanile tower. It has a two-storey nave with seven windows (originally five, with two added later), rusticated quoins, a moulded cornice, and a brick parapet with stone coping. The round-headed windows on both floors have raised stone sills and small imposts; the first-floor windows feature Y-tracery, while the ground-floor windows have been altered.
At the west end, there is a shallow rectangular addition with a projecting square tower that matches the quoins and has a modillioned cornice that extends around the tower. The base of the tower has a round-headed west doorway with impost bands, and the first floor features narrow arcaded round-headed windows with linking imposts. The tower consists of three stages above the cornice: the first stage has slit windows in arcaded blank arches, the second stage has similar arcades on the front and clock faces on the sides, and the top stage features a three-light open-arcaded belfry, a prominent cornice, and a pyramidal roof topped with a weathervane finial. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Former Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,060 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 77% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 23 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 2018
- Related listed building consents — 4 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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