Church of Saint Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Bury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 July 1966. Church.
Church of Saint Thomas
- WRENN ID
- western-baluster-bracken
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Bury
- Constituency
- Bury North MP: Mr James Frith (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 29 July 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Thomas, Rochdale Road
- OS grid reference
- SD 814 106
- Coordinates
- 53.59246, -2.28179
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Thomas, built in 1866 by Laurence Booth, is prominently located at the corner of Rochdale Road and Pimhole Road. It is designed in the Early English style and constructed from coursed rubble. The church features a nave, aisles, a chancel, and a north-west tower that has three stages and a waisted spire. The windows are mainly double and triple lancets, which are accented with colonnettes.
Local climate
Church of Saint Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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