St Thomas's Church was designed by E.H. Shellard a Manchester based architect. Building work began in 1844. It's a so-called Gothic Revival Church and is a good example of Shellard's work. The interior is very much as he designed it.

Shellard worked mainly in the North West of England. He is responsible for many of the region's so-called 'Commissioners' Churches' that came about after the Church Building Acts of 1818 and 1824. One of the reasons that churches were seen to be needed at this time was because of the shift in population from rural to urban areas. The Establishment was also concerned about the growth in non-conformism and the potential threat of revolution of the kind that France had expereinced.

Biggin was one of the four hundred new churches being built in the middle of 1846. At one point Shellard was overseeing the building of for 29 churches at the same time.

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