Church Of St Thomas Of Canterbury

The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, opened in 1895 and designed by Edward Goldie, is a Grade II listed building located on West Hill. It is built in the Perpendicular style using red brick with stone dressings and slate roofs. The west front features a moulded basket-arch door surround with spirelets and crockets, framing paired doors on either side of a polygonal pier that has a figure of St Thomas. There is a round-arched west window with 14th century tracery, and cusped niches with figures of the Virgin and adoring angels in the gable. The north-west tower has a battlemented parapet and a polygonal staircase buttress at the north-west angle, with a recessed battlemented upper tower that has chamfered angles. The south elevation includes a gabled porch that frames a moulded basket arch, alongside a three-bay aisle, a tall two-storey transept, and a three-bay chancel. Inside, the nave is supported by octagonal stone piers leading to a barrel-vaulted ceiling. The chancel arch is made of clustered piers, and the chancel features a rib-vaulted ceiling with three windows in the style of the 14th century.