The Corpus of ROMANESQUE SCULPTURE in Britain & Ireland
St Thomas Becket (now)
Parish church
St Thomas’s church served a rural area W of Havant until the early 20thc., when Bedhampton became increasingly urbanised. The building stands on raised ground. The walls are faced in flint or rubble, with ashlar dressings, and the roofs are covered in red tiles. The church comprises a nave with a bell cote over the W wall and a S porch, a three-bay N aisle with a catslide roof, a chancel, and, to the N of the chancel, a large vestry. The architectural details are mainly of the 13thc. and 14thc. (not necessarily in situ), but the chancel arch is decorated with Romanesque sculpture. It influenced the design of the Victorian font.