Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the East Hertfordshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 April 1985. A Victorian Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- hushed-sill-violet
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- East Hertfordshire
- Constituency
- Hertford and Stortford MP: Josh Dean (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 April 1985
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Much Hadham
- OS grid reference
- TL 436 179
- Coordinates
- 51.84192, 0.08361
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a chapel built in 1855 by G E Pritchett, designed in the Early English style. It is constructed from rough cut grey stone with smooth limestone dressings and features a steep pitched red tile roof. The building is single storey and has a buttressed west end with two lancet windows, a belfry opening in the gable, and a cross at the apex. The south elevation includes a gabled porch on the west side, featuring a door with two orders, attached shafts, and an inner arch moulding in dogtooth with spreading bases. There are three lancet windows on the south side and four on the north side. The east end has a group of three lancets with a continuous hood moulding. A keel moulding runs at sill level around the entire chapel, and the interior is simple.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 50% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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