Church of St Mary is a Grade II listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Mary
- WRENN ID
- silent-rubble-gilt
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary, School Lane, Lower Hardres and Nackington, CT4 5NS
- OS grid reference
- TR 152 531
- Coordinates
- 51.23713, 1.08217
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary was built in 1831-2 by Rickman and Hutchinson in an early English style. It is constructed of flint with ashlar dressings and a slate roof. The church comprises a chancel, nave, and a north-west tower. The tower serves as a porch on the ground floor, with an octagonal upper storey surmounted by a stone broach spire. Lancet windows are present throughout. A modern pantiled roof now covers the building. A 13th-century font is located within. The churchyard, which predates the current church building, contains 18th-century headstones featuring cherub, shell, or skull motifs, early 19th-century Neo-Grecian headstones, chest tombs and oval bodystones.
Local climate
Church of St Mary receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 74% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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.
- Sale history — 4 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- 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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