Church of Saint Thomas

The Church of Saint Thomas is an Anglican parish church built between 1848 and 1852, designed by architect A Ashpitel from London. It is constructed from rock-faced sandstone and features steep slate roofs, coped gables, cross finials, and a west bellcote. The church has a nave and chancel, with a south porch added in 1925. It showcases a lancet style, consisting of a five-bay nave with two-step buttresses between each single lancet, which are topped with hoodmoulds and carved headstops. At the west end, there are two lancets with linked hoodmoulds, headstops, and a blank quatrefoil in a roundel above. The single bellcote has a similar hoodmould, side buttresses, and a Celtic cross finial. The chancel features three similar lancets on the east side, also with linked hoodmoulds and a trefoil panel at the gable apex. Clasping buttresses are present at the east and west end angles. The north side has a vestry with a parapet, a two-light north window, and an east door. The chancel's south side has two lancets, while the south porch added in 1925 includes a pointed door with a similar hoodmould and carved head stops, along with a plain door inside.

Inside, the church has a simple design with thin arch-braced collar trusses that are ceiled above the collars. The chancel arch is moulded stone, and the east window is both moulded and shafted. The stained glass east window, created in 1852 by Bell of Bristol, features six medallion scenes, while the chancel's south window, made in 1889 by Clayton and Bell, is in a 16th-century style. At the west end, there is a Sagranus stone from the 5th or 6th century, inscribed in Latin as "SAIRANI FILI CUNOTAMI" and in Ogham as "SAGRAGNI MAQI CUNATAMI." Near the south door, there is a broken slab with a wheel cross in relief, and by the pulpit, a broken stone with an incised sword hilt device. The font, dating to 1850, has a scalloped square bowl. The pulpit is octagonal and features carved stone with pointed arched traceried panels. In the chancel, there are stalls with poppyhead finials, and marble plaques on the north wall from 1851, 1850, and 1825, and on the south wall from 1865, 1868, and 1833. A post-war brass lectern, designed in the Art Nouveau style, features a figure said to represent the Angel in Revelations 10:2, symbolizing the marine and estuarine traditions of the people of St Dogmaels.