Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a parish church dating to 1911, designed by Temple Moore, with some internal work completed in 1939 and a porch added in 1956. The church is constructed of red brick with cement render and ashlar dressings, and has a plain tile roof.

The plan includes a nave and aisles, each with separate roofs, a south porch, and a south meeting room. The west front features three gables; the central gable has a tall, three-light window with cross mullions and a hood. Flanking gables have high-level three-light windows with a sill band and hood, and vents in the apex. A bellcote sits atop a buttress with a pent canopy clad in wooden shingles. The north aisle has a plinth and three stepped buttresses, along with windows of two, three, and four lights, with flat heads and hoods, and plain paired vents beneath. A two-light pointed window with flowing tracery is at the east end of the aisle. The chancel has a five-light window on its north side, and a foundation stone recording its construction in 1911 is set at low level. The east window is pointed with three lights and reticulated tracery. The south aisle's east end has a three-light, flat-headed window at a low level, and a two-light pointed window above. The vestry and meeting room have two three-light windows, one above the other, and a projecting gabled bay containing a staircase has a two-light window with cusped heads at a high level. The nave's south side has a recessed doorway with a lean-to roof forming a porch with a brick stack adjacent. The tympanum is half-timbered, and the porch opening features an ogee timber head and a carving of St Christopher and a child within a small, brattished gabled canopy. The south side also has three windows of two, three, and four lights, mirroring the north side. The porch is brick-built, gabled, and has battered side buttresses. A stone carved figure of St Thomas kneeling to the risen Christ, created by Philip Pape in 1956, is set within a niche above the door.

The interior features three-bay nave arcades with octagonal piers and double-chamfered pointed arches. A shield to a saint is carved on each pier. A steeply pointed plain arch defines the western bay. The barrel vaulted, planked roof is painted with panels at the eastern ends. The church contains simple Arts and Crafts fittings, including contemporary solid oak pews, choir stalls, a reader's desk, a chancel screen with carved lights and a moulded canopy, a north chapel screen, a communion rail with quatrefoils, and a pulpit dated 1912. A rood with a painted tympanum dates to 1939. A small 19th-century font from the original church is present, along with a carved octagonal font from the redundant parish church of Wispington.

The church replaced an earlier iron church which had been built in 1885 and subsequently demolished in 1911.