Church of St Mary, Ruins is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 27 November 1957. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Mary, Ruins

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Ashford
Constituency
Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
27 November 1957
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Mary, Ruins, Eastwell
OS grid reference
TR 009 473
Coordinates
51.19002, 0.87457
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Mary is a parish church now in ruins, with the exception of its 15th-century tower and a 19th-century south-west chapel. The tower is constructed from flint and plaster, featuring dressed stone quoins on a weathered plinth. It has three stages with offset diagonal buttresses. The doorway, which lacks a door, has a double roll chamfer and a dripmould. There is a two-light Perpendicular window with a cinquefoil above it, and a string course leads to the belfry, which has an 18th-century two-light opening and a battlemented crown. The north and south faces of the tower have single lights above the string course and belfry openings. There is a blocked arch leading to the nave supported by octagonal piers. The south aisle wall remains, made of hammer-dressed stone, and includes one two-light window and another two-light window with a sexfoil above. At the southern end, there is a 19th-century mortuary chapel built from chalk ashlar with a plain tile roof, featuring cusped lancet windows and a vaulted interior. All interior fittings and monuments have been removed.

Local climate

Church of St Mary, Ruins sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 720 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 81% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 51% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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