The church was built to a design by E. H. Shellard between 1844 and 1848 and dedicated to St Thomas. This place once had a settlement of Cistercian monks from Garendon Abbey. The monks brought sheep farming to Biggin Grange.

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October 27, 2024

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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 …

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May 2, 2025

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The patronage of this church – dedicated to Saint Thomas of Canterbury – takes us back in time to the 12th century and geographically to southeastern England. Thomas Becket was Archbishop of Canterbury and, in the dispute between the Church and the Crown (King Henry II), a "martyr of canon law and ecclesiastical freedom," as Pope Alexander III put it on the occasion of his canonization (1173, just three years after Thomas's violent death). His feast day in the calendar of saints is December 29th.

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Location: Hartington Nether Quarter CP, Derbyshire Dales, Derbyshire, East Midlands, England, United Kingdom

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St Thomas's Church, Biggin

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