Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- sharp-turret-raven
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, the Street, Appledore
- OS grid reference
- TQ 957 292
- Coordinates
- 51.02956, 0.79045
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building located on the east side of The Street in Appledore. The church features a chancel with north and south chapels, a nave with a south aisle, a south porch, and a west tower that is divided into three stages and topped with a crenellated parapet. The north chapel, which now serves as the vestry, and the tower date back to the 13th century. The rest of the church was rebuilt after it was burned by the French in 1380, with the north aisle being incorporated into the nave. The nave consists of four bays and includes four crown posts on tie-beams with pierced spandrels. Notable interior features include a piscina, an aumbry, and a stoup, along with a Perpendicular font. The churchyard contains several 18th-century headstones featuring skull or cherub motifs, as well as some oval bodystones and chest tombs.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 690 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 95% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 65% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 21 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 78% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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