Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Guildford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 May 1985. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- young-tower-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Guildford
- Constituency
- Godalming and Ash MP: Sir Jeremy Hunt (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 May 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, New Road, Shalford
- OS grid reference
- TQ 021 470
- Coordinates
- 51.21388, -0.53912
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas, formerly known as the Greshambury Institute, was built in 1896 by W.H. Seth-Smith. It features red brick construction with hipped concrete tile roofs that sweep out to the eaves. The building has a wooden lantern topped with an ogee-shaped lead dome and a crucifix. The structure includes a square pavilion with a lower range on the left and a wing at right angles to the rear. It stands two storeys tall and has battered corner buttresses, along with a continuous leaded clerestory beneath the overhanging eaves, which has tiled pentice sills.
The ground floor has cambered head, 4-light leaded casements on both the left and right sides, and a 6-light window in the lower range to the left facing the street, with two additional windows on the left-hand return front. A gabled porch is located at the centre, featuring half-glazed sides, a bargeboard, and a planked double door at the front. The louvred lantern is supported by battering angle buttresses and has small sphere finials at the corners.
Inside, the church has painted brick walls with four ribs that rise from the corners to meet at the centre of the roof. There is an altar recess located at the rear wall.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 65% 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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