Church Of St Thomas Of Canterbury

WOLSINGHAM RECTORY LANE NZ 0737 (North side) Wolsingham 39/392 Church of St. Thomas of Canterbury

GV II

R.C. parish church. 1854 by Joseph Hansom. Coursed squared sandstone with ashlar dressings; Welsh slate roof with flat stone gable copings. Decorated style. 6-bay nave with north aisle; south aisle and first stage of unfinished south-west tower; 2-bay chancel with north vestry. Boarded double door in second bay of south aisle in roll-moulded 2-centred arch; massive buttresses and chamfered plinth to first stage of tower in first bay. 2-light aisle windows, in bays defined by buttresses; 2-light chancel windows, 5-light east window; 4- light west window flanked by 3-light windows in aisle and tower under pent roofs; Decorated tracery of varied patterns. Small trefoil in west gable peak and cinquefoil in east, under steeply-pitched roofs with elaborate stone cross finials. Interior: painted plaster with ashlar arcades; scissor-truss nave roof and panelled keeled chancel roof. Arcades, of 6 arches on north and 4 on south, have chamfered 2-centred arches on octagonal columns and cushion-moulded capitals. Very high chancel arch in similar style. Cusped 2-centred vestry door. Plain 2-centred tower arches on east and north. Late C19 glass in south aisle east window; earlier glass in east window.

Listing NGR: NZ0759937434