Church Of St Thomas

LYDIATE CHURCH LANE SD 30 NE (north side) 4/85 Church of 11.10.68 St. Thomas G.V. II Church. 1839-41 with chancel of 1913. Probably S. Holmes and Sons. Stone with slate roof, east part of dressed stone with ashlar bands and dressings. Nave, west tower, chancel, north vestry and organ loft and south chapel. 4-bay nave has sill course in form of dripmould and coped gables. Lancet windows with chamfered reveals and hood moulds. Leaded glazing with some stained glass windows. West tower has pointed entrances to west and south with hoodmoulds; north lancet. Blind crosses above. Top stage has sill course, cornice and weathered parapet and pinnacles. Lancets have central stone panel with quatrefoil, leaded glazing below and louvres above; south side has clock face above stone panel. Chancel has gabled angle buttresses and 3-light east window with early Perpendicular tracery. Similar 2-light south window and two 2-light clerestory windows over chapel, which has two 2-light windows and similar east window. North vestry has north and east windows of 3 elliptical-headed lights. Organ loft has 2- light north window. Large gabled buttress with fragmentary wall to left at south east angle of nave and fragmentary wall to west of organ loft suggest rebuilding plans. Interior: Deep west gallery on 2 octagonal iron columns; open-well stair in tower. Flat nave ceiling with tie beams, chancel has waggon roof. Chancel arch dies into octagonal piers; flanking segmental arches. Springers for projected nave arcades and rubble with projecting stones above. 2-bay segmental-headed arcade to chapel, arches dying into pier and responds, similar pointed arch to organ loft. Chancel has recess for sedilia and high reredos with alabaster relief panels.

Listing NGR: SD3632605728