Church Of St Thomas

TG 02 SW FOXLEY THE STREET

5/15 Church of St.Thomas 30/5/60

• II*

Parish church. Medieval and later. Flint with ashlar and some brick dressings. Slate and pantile roofs. Western tower, aisleless nave with south porch and chancel. C14 western tower with diagonal buttresses. Rect- angular projecting stair turret to south with little quatrefoil windows. C19 2-light plate-traceried west window. C14 2-light bell-openings with' very low transoms forming square lights which are filled with knapped flint. Crenellated parapet with former tall corner pinnacles. Buttressed nave with 4 3-light panel-traceried Perpendicular windows. C14 south doorway with dying mouldings and carved label stops. Plain north door. C13 chancel with 3 lancets and a 3-light Y-traceried east window. One later 2-light panel traceried window to south. Priest's door. to south. Interior. Tower and chancel arches plain chamfered with polygonal responds. Simple cusped chancel piscina. Damaged Clschancel screen with 4 fine painted dado panels. Double decker pulpit with a C17 clerk's desk'and pulpit box probably Victorian. 5 box pews to east and 10 crudely carved poppy-head bench ends (probably C16). C14 octagonal font with quatrefoil panels. Early C19 western gallery. C17 communion rail. Medieval south door with fielded vertical panels and cover strips. Fragments of medieval stained glass in north-west nave window.

Listing NGR: TG0395221714