Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Rc) is a Grade II listed building in the Northumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1986. Church.
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Rc)
- WRENN ID
- guardian-quartz-yew
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Northumberland
- Constituency
- Hexham MP: Joe Morris (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Rc), Longhorsley
- OS grid reference
- NZ 146 946
- Coordinates
- 55.24589, -1.77129
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Roman Catholic church built in 1841. It features a west end made of squared stone, while the rest of the structure is constructed from coursed rubble, topped with a slate roof. The church has a cruciform shape, with lateral sacristies instead of traditional transepts, and a southeast porch.
Architecturally, it is designed in the Lancet Gothic style. The west end includes an old door with a raised design of intersecting panels set under a pointed arch with a hollow-chamfered hood. Above this door are three stepped lancets, each with linked hoodmoulds, and the gable is open-pedimented with a finial cross. The side walls are supported by stepped buttresses and feature additional lancets. The porch contains a 10-panel door under a pointed arch. Each sacristy has a door with a shouldered head and paired lancets to the west, while the east side has a triplet of lancets.
The church is also listed for its historical connections with Horsley Tower.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury (Rc) receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 99% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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