Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the York local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 March 1997. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- drifting-granite-crow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- York
- Constituency
- York Central MP: Rachael Maskell (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 March 1997
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Lowther Street
- OS grid reference
- SE 604 528
- Coordinates
- 53.9678, -1.07949
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a parish church built between 1853 and 1854 by George Fowler Jones. It is constructed from squared sandstone with tooled stone dressings and a moulded plinth string, topped with slate roofs featuring stone copings, crocket finials, a vestry stack, and lead cresting. The church is designed in the Gothic Revival style.
The layout includes a two-bay chancel with a north vestry, two-bay north and south transepts, and a three-bay nave topped with a west bellcote. The gabled east end features a three-light window with elongated quatrefoils in a two-centred head. The transepts each have two-light windows separated by a central buttress, with a multi-foiled circular light in the gable apex; the returns have single windows. The nave is buttressed, with a single light in each bay. The central bay of the gabled west end projects slightly and supports a gabled bellcote with a crocketed gable cross.
The west doorway, flanked by one-light windows, has a two-centred filleted moulded arch with attached jamb shafts and board double doors on elaborate scrolled hinges. Above the doorway is a west window with two trefoiled lights and an elongated quatrefoil in a two-centred head, set back over weathered tabling. Both the west door and window feature hoodmoulds with foliate stops. In the gable apex, there is a sunk quatrefoil set in a chamfered circular surround. The gabled bellcote has paired trefoil-headed lights, and the building is supported by three-stage squat buttresses. The windows are trefoil-headed diamond latticed lancets set in quoined and chamfered surrounds with sloped sills. A moulded sill string, stopped with a foliate boss on each side of the west door, encircles the building. The interior has not been inspected.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 43 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 81% of listed buildings. Of these, 22 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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