St Thomas' Church, Halliwell

St Thomas' Church is in Eskrick Street, Halliwell, a residential area of Bolton, Greater Manchester, England.

[2] The church was built in 1874–75 to serve the growing local population, and designed by the Lancaster architects Paley and Austin.

[3] St Thomas' is constructed almost entirely in brick, with a minimum of stone dressings, and has green slate roofs.

[10] The internal surfaces of the church are in plain brick almost throughout, the exception being the east wall below the level of the windows.

The consists of lies set in brick recesses depicting features such as fleur-de-lis, angels, and the Instruments of the Passion.

The wooden reredos dates from 1893 and contains linenfold panels, flower motifs, figures of the apostles under canopies, and a low relief of The Last Supper.

[12] Brandwood et al. state that the relative cheapness of the structure was achieved by using a 13th-century style of architecture, with lancet windows, an interior mainly of bare brick, stone being used only for a few dressings and the piers.

[9] Commenting on its structure, the authors of the Buildings of England series say that the church is "in its brick simplicity sensational for the date".