St Thomas' Church, Green Hammerton

The church, in 2017

St Thomas' Church is an Anglican church in Green Hammerton, a village in North Yorkshire, in England.

The church was designed by George Gilbert Scott as a chapel of ease to the Church of the Ascension, Whixley and was completed in 1876. The village did not previously have an Anglican church, and the construction costs of between £2,000 and £3,000 were funded by donations, co-ordinated by a Mrs Valentine, wife of the vicar of Whixley. It was designed to accommodate 130 worshippers. An organ chantry was added in 1899.[1] One of the smallest of Gilbert Scott's churches, it is criticised by David Cole, who writes that "the heart does not warm to it",[2] although Historic England states that "the quality of the architecture is high, as is the level of artistic achievement". It was grade II listed in 2008.[3]

The church is built of pitch-faced stone with a red tile roof. It has a cruciform plan, consisting of a nave and a chancel, transepts, an organ chantry and a porch. Between the nave and the chancel is a bellcote containing two bells. It has stained windows with glass by Clayton and Bell and James Powell and Sons. Inside, there is a wooden reredos dating from 1934, and a marble font.[3][4]

  1. ^ "Green Hammerton". The British Architect and Northern Engineer. 8 September 1876.
  2. ^ Cole, David (1980). The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott. Architectural Press. ISBN 9780851397238.
  3. ^ a b "Chapel of St Thomas". National Heritage List for England. Historic England. Retrieved 2 November 2024.
  4. ^ Leach, Peter; Pevsner, Nikolaus (2009). Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North. The Buildings of England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-12665-5.