It is located in Prince George Avenue in the Oakwood area of the London Borough of Enfield, England.

St Thomas's is a modern Anglican church established in the 1930s as the suburb of Oakwood grew with the extension of the Piccadilly underground line to Cockfosters.

St Thomas's is within the Conservative Evangelical tradition of the Church of England.

As a parish that supports complementary gender roles, it receives alternative episcopal oversight from the Bishop of Maidstone (currently Rod Thomas).

[4][5] From May 2017 to 2018, St. Thomas' Oakwood was in interregnum; this followed the move of the previous vicar, Christopher Hobbs (1997-2017), to St Andrew's Church, Cheadle Hulme.