Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a parish church dating to 1852, designed by George Evans of Wimborne. It is constructed of ashlar with tiled roofs and stone gable copings featuring finials. The church is laid out with a nave, chancel, south aisle running continuously with a tower and south transept, a north transept, a north vestry, and a south porch. It is built in the Decorated style, characterised by flowing tracery.

The three-stage tower is embattled with diagonal buttresses and an octagonal vice turret projecting above the roof line, topped with a short spire. It features a 2-centred west window with head-stops to the label and paired lancets with pierced stone panels in the belfry. The south aisle has two square-headed, two-light windows with flowing tracery. The north nave windows are 2-centred with two lights and flowing tracery. The transept windows are 2-centred with reticulated tracery. The south chancel wall has a lancet with flowing tracery to the west and a two-light, 2-centred window with flowing tracery to the east; the north chancel wall has a similar lancet. The east chancel window comprises three lights with flowing tracery under a 2-centred head. The east vestry window is of two lights with flowing tracery. The south porch has a 2-centred, moulded arch with shafted jambs and a label with head stops. The south doorway features a 2-centred, moulded head with continuous jambs and a label with carved foliage stops, and a 2-centred vice door.

Inside, the chancel arch is 2-centred and moulded with shafted jambs and an elaborate label with head-stops. A three-bay arcade, with a smaller supplementary bay to the west, features 2-centred arches of two chamfered orders on octagonal piers. The vestry arch is 2-centred and moulded with shafted jambs. Other arches are of two or three straight chamfered orders. The nave and transept roofs are hammer beam with arch-braced collars springing from elaborately carved angel corbels. The chancel has a boarded, ribbed, waggon roof, while the aisle has a flat, ribbed, boarded roof. A wooden pulpit with ogee-headed panels sits on a stone base, and there is an octagonal pulpit with ogee-headed panels in the baptistry under the tower. The chancel has pews with poppy heads. The church also contains various 19th-century encaustic tiles and glass.