Building record MDR13485 - St Thomas' Church, Chatsworth Road, Bramton, Chesterfield

The church was built in 1830-31 by John Woodhead (d 1838) & William Hurst (1787-1844), architects of Doncaster, at a cost of £3013, with a grant of £2063 from the Church Commissioners. Mainly in the plain Gothic style as favoured in the early C19. A new, larger, chancel was added in 1888 (date on foundation tablet) by the architects J.R. Naylor (1854-1923) and G.H. Sale (1857-1945). They also added the organ chamber. The church was restored in 1903 by Cole Adams. The south vestry was built in 1963. (1) According to Kelly's Directory, the church of St. Thomas, New Brampton wes erected in 1831. It was a building of stone, consisting of chancel, nave and a western tower surmounted by four pinnacles and containing one bell; there are marble tablets to the Rev. Matson Vincent M. A. and the Rev. John Berridge Jebb M. A. first and second incumbents of this parish: a new chancel was erected in 1892, at a cost of £1,600, and in 1903 the church was restored and re-decorated, at a cost of £1,350, a font of marble and alabaster being erected at the same time: a new organ was provided in 1906 at a cost of £500: the church contains 600 sittings, half of which are free. (2)