Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a Gothic Revival church in the Early English style, built in 1867-8 by Walter Hanstock. It is constructed of slightly pitched faced stone with quoins and ashlar dressings, and has a steeply pitched slate roof. The church consists of a five-bay nave with lean-to buttressed aisles, a three-bay chancel, and a vestry wing on the north side. A three-tier tower with a slender stone spire is located in the southwest corner. The church features paired stained glass lancets, slightly cusped to the aisles, with smaller, similar lights to the clerestory. The aisle lancets have hood moulds with figure head and foliated stops. The chancel has two-light stained glass windows with simple bar tracery, and the east window is a five-light cusped geometric design with a sexfoil in the head.

The three-tier tower has reducing angle buttresses with off-sets. It includes paired louvred openings to the bell chamber with heavily moulded arches on round colonnettes featuring foliated capitals and sexfoil heads. The tower also has a perforated parapet with octagonal pinnacles and gargoyles, and a blind oculus on each face of the second tier, originally intended for a clock. A heavily moulded arch on round colonnettes with foliated capitals provides the south entrance. A similar entrance is located at the west end of the nave, above a four-light geometrical window.

Inside, the north and south arcades have double chamfered arches on columns with foliated capitals. A tall chancel arch is supported on engaged colonnettes with richly carved capitals, which rest on fluted tapering corbels. The church features a hammer beam roof, a carved stone reredos, and an octagonal marble font.