Church Of St Thomas

ST 58 NE 7/235

PILNING AND SEVERN BEACH NORTHWICK ROAD (north side) Northwick Church of St. Thomas

G.V. II

Church tower. 1842-3 by John Hicks. Rubble with stone dressings. Square plan, neo-Romanesque style. 3-stage tower has west door with paired jamb- shafts with scalloped capitals, 2-light window above, hood mould with wolf-head stops and relieving arch, single light at 2nd stage, 3rd stage has paired window with bell louvres to each side; gabled parapet and coping on Lombard frieze with animal masks as corbels, cross slit in each gable, cockerel weathervane; plinth, weathered clasping buttresses and strings. East elevation has blocked door and large upper window, both round-headed with relieving arch, roof line of former nave visible, part of wall of nave remaining with jamb shafts of a window, mask stop to hood mould, kneeler carved as grotesque animal to north. Outline of nave, transepts and chancel visible on ground. (Sources: Incorporated Church Building Society Records 1842-3 and Verey, D. : Buildings of England, Gloucestershire : The Vale and The Forest of Dean. 1970).

Listing NGR: ST5597186750