Church of St Thomas A Becket is a Grade II listed building in the Cumberland local planning authority area, England. First listed on 28 March 1984. Church.
Church of St Thomas A Becket
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-solder-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Cumberland
- Constituency
- Carlisle MP: Ms Julie Minns (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 28 March 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas A Becket, Farlam
- OS grid reference
- NY 568 598
- Coordinates
- 54.93174, -2.67473
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas a Becket is a church built in 1860 by architect Salvin, located near the site of a medieval church. It is constructed of dressed calciferous sandstone on a chamfered plinth, with ashlar quoins and a graduated green slate roof featuring coped gables. The church has a four-bay nave that includes a west double bellcote and a north aisle, while the two-bay chancel has a south vestry. The nave features north and south gabled porches with pointed arches and two-light lancet windows. The chancel is adorned with pointed lancets and a tripartite east window, and the vestry has a shouldered lintel dated 1860. Inside, there is an open timber roof and late 19th-century furnishings. The four-bay aisle is supported by round columns and pointed arches, and there is late 19th-century stained glass.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas A Becket sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 58 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 97% of listed buildings. Of these, 34 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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