Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the Mid Devon local planning authority area, England. First listed on 10 April 2000. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- tangled-screen-onyx
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Mid Devon
- Constituency
- Tiverton and Minehead MP: Rachel Gilmour (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 10 April 2000
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Tiverton
- OS grid reference
- SS 974 153
- Coordinates
- 50.92849, -3.46109
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is an Anglican church built in 1843 by Benjamin Ferrey, under the guidance of Rev. William Rayer. It is constructed from red local stone that is squared and brought to course, featuring dry slate roofs with coped gable ends and a bellcote over the west gable. The church is designed in the Middle Pointed style and includes a chancel with a north vestry and a nave with a south porch. The exterior has corner buttresses and buttresses that divide the bays.
The nave has four bays and is adorned with 2-light windows that feature trefoil-headed lights and quatrefoil tracery under hoodmoulds, with varied naturalistically-carved heads serving as stops. The east window is a similar 3-light design, and there is a complex rose window at the west end. The chancel vestry has simple mullioned windows, while an attached probable extension to the north of the nave boasts a wide window with complex tracery.
Inside, the church features richly-coloured stained glass and borders of grisaille glass below. There are also tablets dedicated to the Heathcote-Amory family.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas receives an average of 870 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 25 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 73% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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