Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II* listed building in the Test Valley local planning authority area, England. A Victorian Parish church.
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- dusted-cinder-crimson
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Test Valley
- Constituency
- North West Hampshire MP: Kit Malthouse (Con)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Parish church
- Period
- Victorian
- Address
- Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Tangley
- OS grid reference
- SU 334 524
- Coordinates
- 51.2702, -1.52249
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a parish church with early medieval origins, primarily rebuilt in 1875 according to the design of William White, and features a western tower added in 1898. The church consists of a single cell with a small apse built on old foundations, a north transept, a north vestry at the west end, and a south porch. It has a plain tile roof, with the apse roof featuring five hips above a semi-circular eaves. The walls are constructed from coarse flints, adorned with two thin horizontal bands of tiles, and a stone chequer pattern in the upper part of the apse. Additional architectural details include stone dressings, buttresses, a plinth, coupled windows (including one triple window) with cusping and plate tracery, and two very small windows in the apse. The east gable, which is an early fragment, has a coupled opening with round arches resting on simple impost blocks of early Romanesque design. The tower is made of stone, featuring flat corner buttresses, an octagonal stair turret at the south-west corner, and a shingled broach spire.
Inside, the church is plain; in the apse, the south window is set within a two-arched arcade. The chancel arch, located in the very thick east wall, is pointed and has impost blocks. The tower arch is richly moulded, merging with the jamb, and the inner mouldings finish on carved brackets. A notable feature of the church is a lead font, likely from the early 17th century, which is a tub resting on a 20th-century fluted wooden base and is decorated with raised cast ornaments of fleur-de-lys, thistle, and rose.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas of Canterbury receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 67% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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