Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of White Horse local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 November 1966. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- spare-lead-spindle
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Vale of White Horse
- Constituency
- Witney MP: Charlie Maynard (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 November 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, High Street, Watchfield
- OS grid reference
- SU 245 902
- Coordinates
- 51.61076, -1.64663
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas, built between 1857 and 1858 by G E Street, is designed in a plain Gothic style. It features rubble stone construction with dressed stone buttresses, copings, and openings, topped by a gabled stone tiled roof. The church consists of a three-bay nave, a one-bay chancel, a north aisle, and a west bellcote. On the north side of the nave, there are two-light simple cusped pointed windows, while the south side has windows with three stepped cusped lights under pointed arches. The chancel windows are composed of two lights with cusped 'y' tracery.
The west front facing the road showcases an intricate arrangement of buttressing, including a central buttress that changes direction six times before reaching the bellcote. To the left, there is a west porch featuring a chamfered arch that dies into its imposts, along with a plain doorway arch and a plank door adorned with thin ironwork. Inside, the north aisle stands out with deeply undercut capitals in an almost perpendicular style and deeply splayed windows with eyebrow dripstones. The church has an open rafter roof supported by scissor beams and simple cusping. Notable interior elements include a Transitional style font with nebule enrichment, a fine cothick candelabra, and an east window with stained glass dating from 1860.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 64% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 61% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% 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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