St Thomas' Church, Bath Row
The remains of St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank. The building was designed by Rickman and Hutchinson and built in 1826/29. Pevsner admires the west front, but describes as 'odd' the ball and cross ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
St Thomas' Church, Bath Row, Lee Bank, seen in a photograph taken soon after the end of World War II. The church was built in a classical style in 1826/29 but only the west end survived enemy action during ...
St Thomas' Church, Lee Bank
The tumbled masonry and the classical columns put one in mind of scenes of 'the grandeur that was Rome' but this is St Thomas' Church in Bath Row, Lee Bank, in a photograph taken in 1946 before clearing ...
St Thomas on Bath Row
An impressive photograph of the remains on the church. Taken in 1950 after the area had been cleared, the Peace Garden is still many years away yet. This area was heavily bombed during WWII and the Church ...
St Thomas on Holloway Head
A year after the war ended St Thomas's still shows signs of the bomb that hit it with rubble and debris . Of note here are the graves still present which were subsequently removed along with the rubble....
St Thomas' School
The children in the reception class at St Thomas' Schools look quite well-behaved in this 1947 photograph, but one has to wonder how long it was before the vase of flowers on the table got knocked over. ...
St Thomas's Church
E.R. Mason writes about the establishment of St Thomas's Church:
In 1825 the following brief note appeared in the Gazette:
October 10th 1825. “The local commissioners for the building of Churches ...
St Thomas's Church - A Century of Church Life by E.R. Mason
This is a history of the church's first 100 years by Ernest Mason. It is famous today for being bombed in World War Two, the surviving church tower was kept as a monument to peace and the grounds around ...
St Thomas's Church and Gardens
St Thomas's Church after completion of the clearance of the area for bomb damage from the war. The tower alone survived the bomb that hit the church, although it had to be shored up as is just about visible ...
St Thomas's Church and School
An engraving from 1865. The Vicar at this time was the Reverend C.T. Wilkinson who took over from the Reverend G.S.Bull. Bull had overseen the setting up of the churches of Immanuel (on Broad Street) ...
St Thomas's Church Interior
A very scarce view of the interior of the church on Holloway Head which was largely destroyed in the Blitz. This is looking towards the tower end of the church with the stained glass window. Today this ...
St Thomas's Church Tower
The tower, on Bath Row, photographed over the summer of 2006. There used to be an iron cross on the top of it at one time. Apparently a man climbed to the top of this tower and doffed his cap at the time ...
St Thomas's School
Miss Ford's classroom at St Thomas's School, looks quite jolly in this 1947 photograph with its vases of flowers and the frieze of rocking horses. The school was on Bath Row, facing what were by now the ...
St Thomas's School construction site
View of the site as construction was about to commence on the new school on Great Colmore Street - replacing the original school on Granville Street.
St Thomas's School on Great Colmore Street
St Thomas's School will be 40 years old in 2007 at the Great Colmore Street location. Prior to that it had been located at the junction of Bath Row and Granville Street.
St Thomas's School wins garden competition
The school came up with a unique idea for a garden on the rooftop playground. Plants were grown inside used tyres instead of pots. This of course had the advantage of reducing risk of injury should a ...
St Thomas's School, Lee Bank
St Thomas's School in Lee Bank was on the corner of Bath Row and Granville Street. In this photograph, dating presumably from the late 1940s, new children are being introduced to the class. The classroom ...