Church Of St Thomas

SJ 41 SW PONTESBURY C.P. CRUCKTON

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• II

Parochial chapel, now redundant. 1840 by Edward Haycock. Coursed local limestone rubble, machine tile roofs. Plain lancet style; nave, chancel, south vestry, west porch and bellcote. Nave: buttressed in 4 bays with lean- to vestry in east bay of south side; windows all broad lancets; gabled west porch with gabled bellcote (housing single bell) above. Short chancel of one bay with broad lancet in east wall. Interior: retains its original open benches and west gallery supported on plain cast-iron columns; most of the other fittings are late C19/early C20; plain reading desk, stone pulpit with marble shafts and slender octagonal font all of c.1880. The base of the communion table is mid-C17; early C17 oak panelling in north and south walls added when chancel was re-modelled internally c.1929. Erected on a site given by Thomas Harries of Cruckton in 1838 and built at a cost of £949 (raised by public subscription), the chapel formerly served the second portion of Pontesbury parish. V.C.H. VIII (1968), p.290.

Listing NGR: SJ4326310133