Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Warrington local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 December 1983. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- stranded-belfry-linden
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Warrington
- Constituency
- Warrington South MP: Sarah Hall (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 December 1983
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, London Road, Stockton Heath
- OS grid reference
- SJ 613 863
- Coordinates
- 53.37231, -2.58243
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a church built in 1868 by E.G. Paley. It is constructed from pinkish-red sandstone and features roofs made of graded Westmorland green slates. The building includes a four-stage battlemented west tower with an octagonal turret on the southeast corner, a four-bay nave with a south aisle beneath a parallel ridged roof, a south porch, a north transept, a north vestry or sacristy with an organ loft, and a two-bay chancel. The church showcases geometrical tracery, with stained glass in the west window, the three eastern bays of the south aisle, the east and south windows of the chancel, and the north window of the transept.
Inside, there is an arcade of round columns topped with stiff-leaf capitals and an arch-braced roof. The north and south walls of the chancel feature richly coloured patterned tilework in memory of William Hayes, who served as vicar from 1852 to 1875. The reredos is made of marble and embossed patterned tiles. This church is the successor to an earlier church built in 1838.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,000 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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