Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the West Lindsey local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 November 1966. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- moated-doorway-tarn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- West Lindsey
- Constituency
- Gainsborough MP: Sir Edward Leigh (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Main Road, North Willingham
- OS grid reference
- TF 163 882
- Coordinates
- 53.37871, -0.25249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
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.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 56% of listed buildings. Of these, 18 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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