Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Hugh and St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 July 1986. Church.
Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Hugh and St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- winding-zinc-umber
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 July 1986
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Hugh and St Thomas, Marlborough Street, Great Faringdon
- OS grid reference
- SU 288 954
- Coordinates
- 51.65744, -1.58502
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Hugh and St Thomas, built in 1840, was originally a Congregational Chapel. It features cement rendered rubble stone with ashlar dressings and has minimal Gothic detailing. The church has a slate roof and a two-window front, which includes chamfered quoins, a stone plinth, and a band below a low-pitched crenellated gable. A date plaque is present on the façade. The windows are long leaded light lancets with wooden Y-tracery and stone rusticated surrounds. There is a projecting rusticated stone porch with a crenellated gable and a trefoil panel in the center, along with double doors topped by a large fanlight. The sides and rear of the building are made of rubble stone, featuring similar windows set in brick surrounds.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of the Blessed Hugh and St Thomas receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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