St Thomas Bath Row
Birmingham, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands, England
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Birmingham, Metropolitan Borough of Birmingham, West Midlands EnglandCoordinates: 52.47317, -1.90624 - Cemetery ID:
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St Thomas, Bath Row
This late neo-classical church was designed by the early Gothic Revival pioneer, Thomas Rickman. The church suffered a direct hit by a German bomb during the World War 2 which destoyed all but the tower and west front. The tower still stands and the grounds are now the setting for Birmingham Peace Garden.
An Act of 1818 set up a Commission with a £1 million to build churches as a thanksgiving for victory at Waterloo in 1815. Thomas Rickman was an early pioneer of the gothic revival, but he also designed two of the Commissioners' churches in Birmingham in a neo-classical style: St Peter's, Dale End in 1825 (now demolished) and St Thomas' on Bath Row. The first stone was laid in 1826, the church consecrated three years later.
St Thomas' Church, designed in Greek Revival style, was built of stone with a tall west tower rising above two Ionic porticos. The tower is of three stages, the highest of which is octagonal and surmounted by a ball and cross (no longer there). It was the largest church in Birmingham with seating for a congregation of 2600, 1500 seats being free.
St Thomas, Bath Row
This late neo-classical church was designed by the early Gothic Revival pioneer, Thomas Rickman. The church suffered a direct hit by a German bomb during the World War 2 which destoyed all but the tower and west front. The tower still stands and the grounds are now the setting for Birmingham Peace Garden.
An Act of 1818 set up a Commission with a £1 million to build churches as a thanksgiving for victory at Waterloo in 1815. Thomas Rickman was an early pioneer of the gothic revival, but he also designed two of the Commissioners' churches in Birmingham in a neo-classical style: St Peter's, Dale End in 1825 (now demolished) and St Thomas' on Bath Row. The first stone was laid in 1826, the church consecrated three years later.
St Thomas' Church, designed in Greek Revival style, was built of stone with a tall west tower rising above two Ionic porticos. The tower is of three stages, the highest of which is octagonal and surmounted by a ball and cross (no longer there). It was the largest church in Birmingham with seating for a congregation of 2600, 1500 seats being free.
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- Added: 20 Jul 2014
- Find a Grave Cemetery ID: 2547854
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