Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is an Anglican church dating to 1841, designed by H Rogerson. An organ chamber was added to the north side and a vestry to the south side in 1870. The church is constructed of coursed squared gritstone ashlar with a stone slate roof and is in a Neo-Norman style.

The exterior features a five-bay nave with lancet windows set within moulded arches supported by attached columns. Above each window is a circular iron tie-rod plate, a corbel-table, and parapet coping. A three-stage west tower has buttresses that extend to pilasters, with slender attached columns to the third stage. The Norman-style west entrance has double doors with scroll hinges, a surround with paired attached columns, zigzag and roll moulding to the arch, a gable with moulded coping, and a carved head at the apex. Stage 3 features paired lancets in a moulded arch and gargoyles. The chancel bays are flat-roofed with round windows, and the east end has three round-arched lancets with zigzag ornament and animal masks; a round window is above.

Inside, the nave roof is barrel-vaulted with tie-rod trusses resting on corbels with short attached columns. A west gallery has arcaded front panels and columns with reeded cushion capitals. A wide, high round arch leads to the chancel, flanked by circular piercings. The chancel contains a re-set brass rail, polychrome tiled floors, white marble steps, and a faded stained glass window from the 1860s. Four painted panels depict the Creed, Ten Commandments, and Lord's Prayer. A brass eagle lectern commemorates Rachel Butler (1888). A marble memorial by A Welsh of Leeds on the south wall of the nave commemorates John Butler of West Royd, who died in 1884; the inscription notes his kindness of heart and upright character as an employer at Stanningley Iron Works. A straight flight of stone steps leads to the west gallery, which incorporates a balustrade of turned columns and a Romanesque-style muzzled lion's head in cast-iron. The foundation stone was laid on 5 November 1839 by John Farrar of Grove House, Pudsey. The church was consecrated on 29 March 1841, in the presence of Dean Hook of Leeds and the Vicar of Bramley.