Church Of St Thomas

The Church of St Thomas is a church built between 1844 and 1848 by E H Shellard. It is constructed from coursed squared limestone with gritstone dressings and features a low-eaved, graduated slate roof with leaded ridges. The building has stone-coped gables with plain kneelers and diagonal stepped buttresses at the corners.

The church includes a three-stage embattled western tower, which has a high plinth with moulded copings. The west door is moulded and pointed, and above it is a mullioned and transomed window with reticulated tracery, featuring a hoodmould with carved head stops. The second stage of the tower has single light flat-headed windows with hoodmoulds on all sides, and clock faces on the north and south sides. The third stage has louvred bell openings with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds, as well as a stringcourse adorned with large gargoyles and embattled parapets.

A short, slightly projecting stair turret with a four-centred arch doorcase and slit windows is located at the south-east corner of the tower. The south nave has four windows, with a gabled porch situated between the westernmost windows. The porch features a moulded pointed doorcase and an inner door. All the nave windows are two-light with reticulated tracery and hoodmoulds with carved head stops. Stepped buttresses rise to eaves level between the windows, and the chancel has similar single light windows, with the east window displaying panel tracery.

Inside, the church features a wooden western gallery with a cusped panel front, supported by cast iron columns with moulded capitals. The pews are contemporary and have fleur de lis bench ends. The roof is steeply pitched, featuring half cruck and king post construction supported on corbels decorated with carved heads. The chancel arch is continuously moulded, and the stained glass east window dates from 1880. The church also contains contemporary altar rails and a pulpit with cusped panels, as well as charity plaques from 1758 and 1814.