Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a Grade II listed building in the Cotswold local planning authority area, England. Presbytery.
Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury
- WRENN ID
- iron-pavement-falcon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cotswold
- Constituency
- South Cotswolds MP: Dr Roz Savage (LD)
- Country
- England
- Type
- Presbytery
- Address
- Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury, Fairford
- OS grid reference
- SP 153 005
- Coordinates
- 51.70306, -1.77997
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Presbytery of the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury is a building dating from around 1865, designed by Benjamin Bucknall, with a late 20th-century extension at the rear. It is constructed from coursed limestone with freestone dressings and features a steeply-pitched clay plain tile roof, which has stone-coped gable ends adorned with finials and large shaped kneelers. The building has stone axial and corbelled gable-end stacks topped with weathered caps.
The presbytery has a three-room plan, with the entrance and a projecting stair tower located to the left of the center. It is linked on the left end to the Church of St Thomas of Canterbury by the church vestry. The exterior showcases a high Victorian Gothic style, with one storey and an attic. The front is asymmetrical with four windows, featuring large stone cross-mullion-transom windows that have hoodmoulds and relieving arches. The prominent gabled stair tower to the left of the center includes a two-light stone mullion window with a statue niche above and a stone cross at the apex of the gable. To the left, there is a shouldered arch doorway with a plank door fitted with wrought-iron strap hinges. The right-hand return gable-end has a similar two-light window on the ground floor and a three-light window on the first floor, both with hoodmoulds and relieving arches. At the rear, there is a small gabled stone dormer at eaves level with corbelled kneelers and a finial, alongside the late 20th-century single-storey extension with a flat roof.
Inside, the presbytery features stone newel stairs, and the windows have central mullions with corbels at the top that support the ceiling beams. This building is recognized as a good example of a High Victorian Gothic style presbytery.
Local climate
Presbytery of Church of St Thomas of Canterbury receives an average of 790 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 57% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 55% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 69% of listed buildings. Of these, 17 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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