Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Calderdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 6 June 1983. Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Thomas

WRENN ID
silent-keep-sable
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Calderdale
Constituency
Calder Valley MP: Josh Fenton-Glynn (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
6 June 1983
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Thomas, Rochdale Road, HX4 8JE
OS grid reference
SE 085 213
Coordinates
53.6885, -1.87221
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Thomas, built in 1860 by T. Rushforth, is a Gothic revival structure located on the north side of Elland Rochdale Road. It features a nave, chancel, south transept chapel, and a west tower, constructed from hammer-dressed stone with a steep slate roof. The windows display geometric tracery, with paired windows in the nave, an east window comprising three lights, and a transept window with four lights. The tower, which is unbuttressed and consists of three stages, is topped with four squat pinnacles and has belfry windows with two louvred lights.

Inside, the church has a four-bay arcade supported by early French Gothic capitals. The south aisle features a lean-to roof and is illuminated by triple circular windows, each with three lobes. An arch leading to the transept chapel is now blocked at the lower level by an organ. The chancel includes a north aisle that forms a chapel, accessible through two arches with pierced tympana. There is sedilia beneath a round arch, and the east window is adorned with marble shafts that have rings, as does the chancel arch. The stained glass in this window depicts the crucifixion, and the open roof features arch-braced trusses that spring from carved corbels.

Furnishings include a pulpit with stubby shafts made of different marbles and choir stalls with round arched arcading sourced from St. John, West Vale.

Local climate

Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,030 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 82% 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 51 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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