Watchfield : St Thomas

St Thomas’s (Grade II listed) was built in 1857-8 by G E Street, an earlier church having been demolished in 1788. It is plain Gothic in style, made of rubble stone with dressed stone buttresses, copings and openings and gabled stone tiled roof with bellcote.

About this church

Inside this Grade II listed church there is a three bay nave, one bay chancel, and a north aisle. In an otherwise plain interior the north aisle has deeply undercut capitals of almost perpendicular style and deeply splayed windows with eyebrow dripstones. The roof is open rafters with scissor beams and simple cusping. There is a transitional style font with nebule enrichment, a fine candelabra and an 1860 stained glass east window.The roadside west front has an elaborate interplay of buttressing which includes a central buttress that changes in direction six times before it reaches the bellcote.
Built during 1857-58 by G.E.Street in gothic style. Building material consists of rubble stone with dressed stone buttresses.
Architectural features include a three-bay nave, one-bay chancel, a north aisle and a west facing bellcote.
Windows are also gothic in style, with lots of examples of cusped ‘y’ tracery.
There is a West porch with a chamfered arch.

Interior:
Rather plain, featuring perpendicular style capitals across the north aisle. The roof is an open rafter roof.
Transitional style font.

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