Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a Roman Catholic church built in 1794, although the facade is believed to have been completed in 1835. The building is rendered with sandstone dressings and has a slate roof. The facade features clasping pilasters, a cornice with a blocking course, and a central cross. Three keyed lunette windows are set above a band and illuminate the gallery. A central single-storey ashlar porch has a moulded pediment and a doorway with a round head, keystone, and impost band. The side windows are framed with plain stone surrounds, also with round heads and impost bands, and feature later 19th-century Venetian tracery. Inside the porch, there is an inner doorway with an architrave and a Latin inscription beneath a pediment, along with an oval plaque that reads 'MDCCXCIV'. A west gallery is supported by fluted columns, while at the east, attached marbled Corinthian columns hold up an entablature, above which is a decorated cove that extends along both the north and south walls. In the vestibule beneath the gallery, there is a painted water stoup, the upper part of which appears to date from the 17th century, inscribed with 'AW 1699'.