Church Of St. Thomas New Hey

The Church of St. Thomas - New Hey is a Grade II listed church built between 1876 and 1877 by architect H. Lloyd for James Heap. It is constructed from rock-faced stone with white stone dressings and features a fishscale slate roof. The church is designed in the Gothic revival style and includes a nave with a clerestory, aisles, transepts, a south-west tower, and a chancel.

The nave and aisles have five bays, with a projecting plinth and weathered buttresses. Each bay contains paired lights with Geometrical tracery and hoodmoulds in the aisles, while the clerestory features two paired lights with cusped heads. The transept windows consist of four lights, and the gables are coped with kneelers and topped with cross finials. The chancel, flanked by a vestry and organ chamber, has a five-light east window.

The four-stage tower is adorned with diagonal gableted buttresses that are topped by crocketed pinnacles. It has a crocketed triangular hoodmould above the entrance, an arcade of cusped lights at the first stage, a circular opening at the second stage, and paired belfry lights. The broach spire, which includes lucarnes and a weather-cock, is set back behind an enriched parapet.

Inside, the church features a double-chamfered nave arcade supported by circular columns with naturalistic capitals and moulded bases. The tall transept arches are flanked by smaller secondary arches, and the roof trusses alternate between arch-braced and tie-beam designs. The sanctuary includes blind arcading, along with a stone font, pulpit, stained glass, and timber fittings. The church closely resembles Holy Trinity Church in Western Super Mare, which was designed by Lloyd in 1861, and it makes a striking impression due to its prominent site and contrasting materials.