St Thomas's School is a Grade II listed building in the Oldham local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 March 1993. School.
St Thomas's School
- WRENN ID
- kindled-buttress-bistre
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Oldham
- Constituency
- Oldham West, Chadderton and Royton MP: Jim McMahon (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 March 1993
- Type
- School
- Address
- St Thomas's School, St Thomas's Circle
- OS grid reference
- SD 919 042
- Coordinates
- 53.53496, -2.12229
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Thomas's School is a school building dating from around 1870. It is constructed from coursed and roughly squared rubble in small blocks, with ashlar dressings and a Welsh slate roof. The building is symmetrically planned and single-storeyed, featuring gabled wings on either side, each with its own gabled porch, and a central gable that also includes an entrance.
The central gable has a lean-to porch supported by heavy angle buttresses and features squat trefoiled windows set within a relieving arch. At the apex of the gable, there is a recessed arched panel with a small rose window. The gable is topped with stone copings and a wrought-iron finial. On either side of the central gable, there are two paired lancet windows. The separately roofed gabled porches at the angle of the wings each have heavy moulding around the doorways. Each wing also contains high triple traceried windows, along with angle buttresses and a short buttress beneath the windows.
Local climate
St Thomas's School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,040 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 84% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 24 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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