Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 16 August 1962. A Medieval Church.
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- calm-gargoyle-heath
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 16 August 1962
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin, Stone-Cum-Ebony
- OS grid reference
- TQ 940 273
- Coordinates
- 51.01277, 0.76455
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade II* listed building located in Stone-cum-Ebony. The church features a chancel with north and south chapels, a nave with aisles, a south porch, and a west tower topped with a beacon turret. It was completely rebuilt after a fire in 1464. The nave has three bays and a crown post roof. There is a late Perpendicular screen in the north chapel, and the church underwent restoration by Ewan Christian in 1874. Additionally, there is a Roman altar to Mithras located under the tower.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin 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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