Church of St Thomas is a Grade II listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 October 1984. Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- spare-threshold-sienna
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Skipton and Ripon MP: Sir Julian Smith (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 October 1984
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Main Street, Sutton
- OS grid reference
- SE 007 441
- Coordinates
- 53.89352, -1.99038
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas, built in 1869 by W H Crossland, is a church made of ashlar stone with a slate roof. It features a nave, chancel, aisles, a west tower, a north porch, and an organ loft. This building showcases a mature Gothic Revival style, primarily reflecting late Geometric design, particularly in the three bays of the nave. The clerestorey has two bays with square-headed, cusped lights arranged in pairs. The organ loft is highlighted by a rose window made up of mouchettes. The west tower is supported by heavy diagonal buttresses that extend just below a prominent string course, adorned with large grotesque gargoyles at each corner. Above this, the tower is finished with battlements and four short, crocketed pinnacles, along with louvred belfry windows. Inside, the nave consists of three unequal bays featuring an open timber roof with a light scissor construction, which varies slightly over the two-bay chancel. The capitals are intricately carved with foliage reminiscent of Southwell. Additionally, there is a large white marble pulpit and a classical-style font.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,120 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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