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St. Thomas a Becket's Church
Photos by John Wilkes of Cam near Dursley, Gloucestershire
The Gloucestershire Photo Library
Page composition by Allan Taylor of Vancouver, Canada
http://www.allthecotswolds.com
St Thomas a Becket's Church was almost wholly rebuilt in the early 14th Century, something of a rarity for the Gloucestershire Cotswolds.
It is built of stone with Welsh slate roofs. It consists of a chancel with a North-east vestry and an early 16th Century chapel, nave with a small sanctus bellcote, North aisle, short South trancept, South porch, and tall West tower with ribbed spire. The ashlar tower has two stages, with diagonal buttresses; its fine spire, octagonal and broached, has solid pinnacles at the angles and two-light lucarnes with crocketed ogee heads on eight of its eight sides. The spire was rebuilt in 1772, following severe storm damage. The lucarnes have cusped Y-tracery like the bell-openings.
The font in the church is 13th Century and consists of a circular bowl with a roll moulding at the top and a roll with a holow chamfer at the bottom. The pedestal is an octagonal stem, probably 15th Century. There is stained glass in the church which dates from 1879 by Lavers, Barraud & Westlake; and Heraldic glass by J. A. Crombie, dating from 1972.
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