Recent painting has cost St. Thomas More some sense of its original rustic shingled texture, and the interior has been redone. But it is exceptional for the way in which picturesque cosiness is embodied in large abstract forms which dignify what might otherwise seem overly sentimental. A big shingled gable is crossed by another with triple-arched window. This is flanked by tiny dormers. Below, the repetitive slants of simple buttressing rhythmically frame paired windows and enliven the wall. At the corner, steep stairs climb to a gabled porch entrance into an austere bell tower with Lombard arching under the capping hip, giving monumental punctuation to the sheltering shapes stretched out below it.