page_title: Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland
section_title: Edward Harold Forshaw 1969–1973
hierarchical_section_title: Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland / Clergy / Edward Harold Forshaw 1969–1973
caption_attribution_description: English: Stanley St Peters Church No buyer has yet been found for this grade II listed building, which has been disused since 2001. The church is fenced off and the signs read “Keep Clear, Dangerous Structure, Keep Out”. Meanwhile the decay goes on.
context_page_description: The Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland, West Yorkshire, England, is an Anglican church. It is an Arts and Crafts building in Gothic Revival style, designed by James Mallinson and William Swinden Barber, and completed in 1870. The building was funded by William Legge, 5th Earl of Dartmouth, and it was consecrated by Robert Bickersteth, Bishop of Ripon. The total height of the tower and spire is 109 feet, and the nave contains an arch-braced hammerbeam roof.
  The first incumbent of the parish to use this building was Rev. Robert Boyle Thompson, an evangelical missionary who had already done "great work" in the slums of Seven Dials when he was granted the living of Thurstonland at the age of 28 years.
context_section_description: Edward Harold Forshaw (1908–1980) was born at Birkenhead. He was the third child of barge waterman James Forshaw (born 1872 Butts Bridge; died 1909 Liverpool) and his wife Emma Forshaw nee Caffrey (born 1875). He married Doris Lowe at Kidderminster in 1945.
  He graduated from Worcester Ordinary College in 1955. He was made deacon in 1956, and ordained priest in 1957 by the Bishop of Worcester. He was curate of St George, Redditch, 1956–1960, and of St Andrew's, Netherton, West Midlands from 1960 to 1963. He was vicar of Stanley, West Yorkshire, 1963–1969. He was vicar of New Mill including Thurstonland from 1969 to 1973. He died in 1980 at Wakefield in his 72nd year.
caption: Forshaw was vicar of St Peter's, Stanley, demolished in 2014
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