The Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building in the Rother local planning authority area, England. First listed on 3 August 1961. A Mainly 1200 circa Church.
The Parish Church of St Michael
- WRENN ID
- second-rampart-larch
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Rother
- Constituency
- Hastings and Rye MP: Helena Dollimore (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 3 August 1961
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Mainly 1200 circa
- Address
- The Parish Church of St Michael, Peasmarsh Road, Playden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 920 216
- Coordinates
- 50.96251, 0.7331
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Michael is a Grade I listed building located on Peasmarsh Road in Playden. It features a chancel, a central tower with north and south transpets, a nave with aisles, and a south porch. The tower is topped with a broached shingled spire. The church primarily dates from around 1200, with later windows added.
Local climate
The Parish Church of St Michael sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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