Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a parish church built in 1840 by G. Jackson. It is constructed from coursed squared sandstone with an ashlar plinth and dressings, topped with a Welsh slate roof featuring stone gable copings. The church exhibits an Early English style and consists of a nave with a south porch, and a chancel that includes a north organ chamber and vestry.

The steeply-gabled porch features a moulded two-centred shafted arch with a recessed chamfered surround leading to boarded double doors. The gable has deep coping with a roll-moulded finial. The nave has lancet windows, mostly arranged in pairs across three bays, which include drip moulds and a sill string. The chancel has three stepped lancets in a lower set-back, and the design continues around chamfered coped buttresses that clasp at the corners, adorned with octagonal spirelets on the east and west corners. The west side of the church has three stepped lancets and a stone angelus cross, with trefoils decorating the peaks of the nave gables.

Inside, the church features painted plaster with ashlar dressings above a boarded dado, a panelled chancel dado, and a reredos. The roof trusses include queen and king posts supported by roll-moulded corbels, while the chancel has collared trusses on similar corbels. The chancel arch is two-centred with a chamfered inner arch on roll-moulded corbels, and richly moulded corbels support the organ arch. There is a pierced panel in the west organ chamber wall and a diagonally-boarded west gallery on cast iron columns. The east window serves as a Second World War memorial designed by George Cooper Abbs.

Notable interior features include an octagonal stone font with a pierced ogee cover, gifted by Dr. A. Thorp of Durham, and a white and black marble monument dedicated to Thomas and Mary Fenwick, who died in 1850 and 1856, featuring an open book and anchor in low relief. A 20th-century addition of a hall is not considered of interest.