Building record TQ 55 SW 286 - St Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church, 14 Granville Road, Sevenoaks

St Thomas of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church was built in 1896 on the junction of Granville Road and Gordon Road by architect Frederick A Walters with spirelet and opened by Cardinal Vaughan.This replaced an earlier temporary 'iron church', called Holy Trinity RC Church erected in 1880. Walters then extended the present Church in1925/6 bringing the building to its current length and added the saddle-backed topped tower. The Father Tom Quinn Memorial Porch is a recent sympathetic addition (1994) by Burns, Guthrie & Partners. The Church is built in simple Romanesque style, rendered with stone window and door surrounds and steep-pitched tiled roof. Germanic looking tower with gabled tiled roof. West front has gabled porch with round-headed stone arch and flanking stone buttresses, double doors with fancy ironwork, and pair of round-headed windows in round-headed arched recess. The door is of some architectural merit. (1)

<1> Sevenoaks District Council, Sevenoaks District Council Local List of Heritage Assets (Index). SKE53505.