Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a parish church built in 1876, with alterations to the interior in the late 20th century. Designed by Flockton & Abbot, it is constructed of uncoursed rubble with ashlar dressings, set beneath gabled and hipped slate roofs, and is built in the Gothic Revival style.

The church’s plan includes an apsidal chancel, nave, south porch, south tower and organ chamber, a north transept, and a vestry. The exterior features a plinth, sillband, coped gables, and corbelled eaves. The apsidal chancel has seven plain single lancet windows. The nave’s south side has a single lancet window to the west and a two-light pointed arch window to the east. The north side has three two-light pointed arch windows. All windows include tracery of varying patterns. The west end is distinguished by a string course, two single lancet windows, and a round window above and between them.

The south porch has a deep plinth and coped gable, with a chamfered pointed arched doorway bearing a hoodmould and 20th-century gates. Its interior features a segmental pointed doorway with late 20th-century glazed doors. The square south tower, divided into two stages, has a deep plinth, string course, machicolated eaves, a coped parapet, and a pyramidal roof. A square stair turret is located to the south-east. The lower stage of the tower has two single lancet windows to the south, while the bell stage has a louvred double lancet opening on each side. An organ chamber to the east has a hipped roof and a single lancet window to the south. The north transept features a graduated triple lancet to the north, a single lancet to the west, and a pointed doorway to the north-east. The adjoining lean-to vestry has two shouldered windows to the north and a flat-headed single window to the east.

Inside, the chancel has a double chamfered arch with imposts, an arch braced panelled ceiling, and an apse. A moulded sillband runs along the interior, and a blind ashlar arcade with an inscription is located to the east. The windows contain stained glass from the late 19th century. A south arch contains the organ. The nave has a traceried wall plate and a panelled wagon roof with arch braces on corbels. A late 20th-century glazed blockwork screen, creating meeting rooms and a mezzanine floor, divides the west end. The south transept, beneath the tower, boasts a double chamfered arch and a cross beam ceiling, with a chamfered arch containing the organ and a tower door to the south-east.

The north transept contains a pair of chamfered arches, a round pier with a foliage capital, and resited traceried wooden screens. It also has a wagon roof and an internal porch with half-glazed doors, leading to an east door giving access to the vestry. A stained glass panel is present in the east window. Fittings include an octagonal ashlar font with an alabaster stem, an octagonal oak pulpit, traceried stalls and a desk, and plain benches, all dating to the late 19th century.

Memorials include a marble, slate and ashlar war memorial tablet with flanking columns, dating to circa 1920, and a wooden memorial panel from circa 1945.