Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a parish church that dates from the 14th and 15th centuries, with restorations carried out in 1753 and 1896. It is constructed of squared greenstone rubble, with some sandstone coursed rubble, and features slate roofs with lead dressings. The building includes a western tower, nave, and chancel.

The tower has three stages and is characterized by a plinth and an embattled parapet with corner pinnacles. The west door, dating from the 18th century, has chamfered reveals and a semi-circular head with key and impost blocks. Above the door is a reset 15th-century window with panel tracery, and the belfry stage features paired ogee-headed lights with a mandorla above, oriented towards the principal directions. The north side wall of the nave has three semi-circular headed windows with key and impost blocks, while the east chancel wall is adorned with a Venetian window with a plain surround. The south side of the nave matches the north.

Inside, the west tower chamber contains a staircase with plain balusters leading to the first-floor ringing chamber, where the original 14th-century single chamfered pointed tower arch can be seen in the east wall. The nave is accessed through panelled double doors with a low basket arched 18th-century surround featuring key and impost blocks. Both the nave and chancel have dentillated cornices. The chancel arch is semi-circular headed with panelled reveals and moulded imposts.

Notable fittings include mid-18th-century turned baluster altar rails, a panelled pulpit, and a panelled gallery at the west end of the nave supported on slender square columns, which also has a dentillated cornice. There is a 19th-century octagonal font on a circular marble shaft. Monuments within the church include the head of a 13th-century recumbent grave slab with a cross fleury terminal built into the west wall of the nave, and two pitch pine freestanding crosses in the chancel, which were brought from Palestine after the First World War.