Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 December 1986. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- under-hinge-acorn
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 December 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Pennington Road, Southborough, TN4 0SL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 579 427
- Coordinates
- 51.16216, 0.25765
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a plain Gothic church built between 1860 and 1861 by H Pownall. It features an aisled layout with a west belfry and a lower east chancel. The walls are constructed of rubble, and the roof is covered with grey and green slates. The south transept, designed in a similar style by R H Gurling, was added in 1888. Inside, the nave has a wooden rafter roof that is separate from the chancel. The south aisle includes a 5-sided baptistery at its southern end. An organ loft was added in the north transept in 1925. The church also has a stone pulpit adorned with marble columns and inset decoration, along with later 19th-century stained glass in the windows.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
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