Church Of St Thomas

WOLVERHAMPTON

SO90SW CHURCH STREET, Wednesfield 895-1/2/155 (North side) 03/02/77 Church of St Thomas

GV II

Church. 1751; reconstruction after fire and chancel, 1903, by F.T.Beck. Brick with ashlar dressings and slate roof. Classical style. Chancel with apse, north organ loft and south vestry; nave with west tower. Chancel has top cornice and parapet with balustrading; quoins; round apse has 3 round-headed windows with archivolts and keys between paired brick pilasters; 2-bay returns have architraved window with friezes and cornices over single-storey parapeted wings, which have architraved windows with triple keys and similar entrances. Nave has modillioned cornice, parapet with balustrading; quoins; symmetrical 5-window elevations have 2 tiers of windows; square lower windows on sill blocks; architraves and keystones, 6 central windows with Gibbs surrounds; all with small-paned fixed glazing. 3-stage tower has quoins and re-entrant blocks; entrance has Gibbs surround, pulvinated frieze and segmental pediment, paired panelled doors; keyed roundel to 2nd stage; top stage has sill band and round-headed windows obscured by clock faces; top cornice, balustraded parapet and acorn finials; pyramidal roof with weathercock; re-entrants have simpler details, architraved windows and return entrances. INTERIOR: barrel-vaulted ceilings with bands; round chancel arch has coffered soffit; chancel has Ionic over Doric pilastrades; north arch to organ loft; intersecting ribs to apse vault; panelling; nave has galleries to 3 sides, cut back to east, on Doric colonnade, entablature, balustrade and upper Ionic colonnade; Classical reredos and altar rail; high pulpit on 5 columns has attached colonnade; octagonal font has cornice and canopy in form of open cupola with side opening; some stained glass and encaustic tiles. (The Buildings of England: Pevsner N: Staffordshire: London: 1974-: P.300).

Listing NGR: SJ9444300216