Parish Church of St Mildred is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 8 May 1950. A C14 to C15 Church.
Parish Church of St Mildred
- WRENN ID
- lost-copper-rush
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 8 May 1950
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Parish Church of St Mildred, High Street, Tenterden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 883 333
- Coordinates
- 51.06876, 0.68723
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Parish Church of St Mildred, located on the north side of High Street in Tenterden, dates from the 14th to 15th centuries. Its exterior features stone rubble construction with a crenellated tower made of Bethersden marble, which is dated 1467 and adorned with four crockets. The church includes a south porch and has a five-bay nave flanked by north and south aisles. Inside, there is a 19th-century wooden barrel vaulted ceiling. The stone chancel arch contains two blocked-in lancets, and there is a 19th-century carved chancel screen, along with a piscina and sedilia. The church also houses early 17th-century monuments by Whitfield. This building is part of a group of listed buildings on the north side, from Nos 10 to 44, including the Church of St Mildred.
Local climate
Parish Church of St Mildred 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 53% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 24 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 74% 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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