The parish of St Thomas dates from 1893 when a small mission church of wood and corrugated iron was built in Orchard Road.

Land for the new church was provided by local landowner John Talbot Clifton and brewer Robert Slater Boddington gave £500.

[3] The church was dedicated to St Thomas in 1900 by James Moorhouse, the Bishop of Manchester.

[4] On 15 February 1993, St Thomas' was designated a Grade II listed building.

[1] Stained glass in the church includes work by Powells, G. P. Hutchinson, Carl Edwards and Shrigley & Hunt.