Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Kirklees local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 May 1984. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- worn-eave-river
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Kirklees
- Constituency
- Ossett and Denby Dale MP: Jade Botterill (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 May 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Marsh Hall Lane, Kirkburton
- OS grid reference
- SE 166 107
- Coordinates
- 53.59317, -1.75057
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a Gothic Revival church built in 1870. It features hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and has a pitched slate roof with a stone gutter supported by moulded brackets. The church has a five-bay nave with offset buttresses and paired, cusped, arched lights. The chancel is two bays long and has cusped single light windows with a trefoil in the head. The east window is a four-light design with two five-foils and one six-foil in the head. The west window consists of two pairs of slender cusped lancets, each topped with a quatrefoil in a circle. There is a large quatrefoil in a circle at the apex of the west end.
On the south side at the east end of the nave, there is a three-tier tower with a stair turret and a splay-footed stone spire featuring lucarnes with five-foils in the head. The second tier has archivolted paired, cusped lights, and the bell chamber openings are large, louvred two-light designs with a circle in the head. The doorway on the south side has a moulded arched head and a figure in a canopied niche above. A vestry wing is located on the north side.
Inside, the church has an arched braced hammer beam roof and a square font from 1871, which is supported by four marble colonnettes on a clustered base.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 72% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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