Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Dorset local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 June 1984. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Thomas
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Dorset
- Constituency
- North Dorset MP: Simon Hoare (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 June 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, East Orchard
- OS grid reference
- ST 833 179
- Coordinates
- 50.96052, -2.23863
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a parish church built in 1859 by architects Evans and Pullan, with the chancel designed by E. Christian. It features rubble walls topped with a gabled, tiled roof and an end bell-cote, along with stone copings at the west and a greensand plinth. The layout includes a nave, chancel, and a south porch. The windows are lancets throughout, with the west window consisting of five graduated lancets and the east window featuring three graduated lancets. The church has corner pilaster type buttresses. The porch has an outer two-centred arch with two chamfered orders supported by half-columns with capitals and bases, while the inner door has a two-centred chamfered head. Inside, there is a late 12th century or early 13th century font with a circular bowl and a 19th century stem and base, along with other 19th century fittings.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 53% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 35 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 59% 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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