St Thomas' Church, Green Hammerton

{{Short description|Chapel in Green Hammerton, North Yorkshire, England}}

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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.{{cite news |title=Green Hammerton |work=The British Architect and Northern Engineer |date=8 September 1876}} 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",{{cite book |last1=Cole |first1=David |title=The Work of Sir Gilbert Scott |date=1980 |publisher=Architectural Press |isbn=9780851397238}} 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.{{NHLE |desc=Chapel of St Thomas |num=1392840 |access-date=2 November 2024}}

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.{{cite book| last =Leach| first =Peter| last2 = Pevsner | first2 = Nikolaus | author2-link = Nikolaus Pevsner | series= The Buildings of England| title =Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North| publisher =Yale University Press | year =2009 | location =New Haven and London |isbn =978-0-300-12665-5}}