Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the South Gloucestershire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 5 December 1984. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- sombre-tallow-harvest
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- South Gloucestershire
- Constituency
- Thornbury and Yate MP: Claire Young (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 5 December 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Northwick Road, Pilning and Severn Beach
- OS grid reference
- ST 559 867
- Coordinates
- 51.57788, -2.63677
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Thomas is a church tower built between 1842 and 1843 by John Hicks. It is constructed of rubble with stone dressings and features a square plan in the neo-Romanesque style. The three-stage tower has a west door with paired jamb-shafts and scalloped capitals, a two-light window above it, a hood mould with wolf-head stops, and a relieving arch. The second stage contains a single light, while the third stage has paired windows with bell louvres on each side. The tower is topped with a gabled parapet and coping adorned with a Lombard frieze featuring animal masks as corbels, and there is a cross slit in each gable along with a cockerel weathervane. Additional details include a plinth, weathered clasping buttresses, and string courses.
On the east elevation, there is a blocked door and a large upper window, both of which are round-headed with relieving arches. The roof line of the former nave is visible, and part of the wall of the nave remains, showing the jamb shafts of a window, a mask stop to the hood mould, and a kneeler carved as a grotesque animal to the north. The outlines of the nave, transepts, and chancel can be seen on the ground.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 830 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 54% 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 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 52% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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