Churchyard to St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 4 June 1976. Churchyard. 2 related planning applications.
Churchyard to St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- dusk-tower-stoat
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 4 June 1976
- Type
- Churchyard
- Address
- Churchyard to St Mary's Church, Church Road, Kennington, TN24 9DQ
- OS grid reference
- TR 022 451
- Coordinates
- 51.16978, 0.89142
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The churchyard to St Mary's Church in Kennington features 18th-century headstones adorned with motifs such as skulls, cherubs, and hourglasses, along with oval body stones and some tomb chests. Temple House is part of a group that includes St Mary's Church and the churchyard.
Local climate
Churchyard to St Mary's Church 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- 1 Churchyard of Parish Church of St Mary the Virgin
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- 3 Five Churchyard Tombs, South of St Mary's Parish Church
- 4 Unidentified Monument 1.5m South of the Vestry of the Church of St Mary, St Cuthberga and All Saints
- 5 Row of 29 Headstones Ranged Along North Wall, Church of St Mary
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