Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building in the Ashford local planning authority area, England. First listed on 14 February 1967. A C15 Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- eternal-grate-quill
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Ashford
- Constituency
- Weald of Kent MP: Katie Lam (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 14 February 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, the Street, Bethersden
- OS grid reference
- TQ 927 402
- Coordinates
- 51.1292, 0.75396
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Margaret is a Grade I listed building located on the north side of The Street in Bethersden. It is constructed from Kentish ragstone and features a chancel with north and south chapels, the north chapel currently serving as the vestry. The church has a nave with aisles and a west tower that consists of three stages, which is supported by buttresses and topped with a crenellated parapet. The porch and the three-bay nave have crown post roofs. The nave and aisles date back to the 14th century, while the chancel, chapels, and tower were built in the 15th century. The churchyard contains several 18th-century headstones adorned with skull motifs, hourglass and serpent motifs, as well as some oval bodystones.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret sits in one of the driest parts of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 76% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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