Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas, located on Victoria Street in Featherstone, was built between 1876 and 1878. It is constructed from rockfaced sandstone and features a green slate roof with red cockscomb ridging tiles, designed in the Early English style. The church has a nave with north and south aisles, a south porch, and a chancel. The tall four-bay nave is topped with a steeply-pitched roof and includes angle buttresses and pilasters. It has four clerestorey windows with large quatrefoils above short coupled lancets. The buttressed aisle features a gabled porch at the first bay with a two-centred arched outer doorway, which is chamfered in three orders, and lancet windows in the other bays. The west gable displays three lancets with linked hoodmoulds and a large rose window above, created by a central roundel surrounded by rectilinear and curved tracery forming eight foils. The three-bay chancel has lancet windows, including an east window with three stepped lancets in a recessed arch. The roofs are steeply pitched with gable copings and apex crosses.

Inside, the church features four-bay aisle arcades with double-chamfered arches that spring from exceptionally wide square capitals made of roughly-hewn shallow blocks, supported by relatively slim columns. The hoodmoulds also have similarly hewn black stops. The chancel arch is adorned with shafts that rise from roughly hewn figured corbels. This decorative treatment may reflect the aesthetic of the mining community that the church serves.