Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II* listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. A Norman Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- crooked-obsidian-stoat
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Norman
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Thanington Road, Thanington Without Kent, CT1 3XE
- OS grid reference
- TR 131 567
- Coordinates
- 51.27031, 1.05441
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas, located on Thanington Road, is a Grade II* listed building. It is constructed from flint with stone dressings and features a tiled roof. The church consists of a chancel, nave, south transept, and a tower, replacing what would have been a north transept. The chancel is of Norman origin, while the rest of the church dates from the 13th century and was restored in 1846 by the architect William Butterfield. Inside, there is an early 14th-century piscina. The churchyard is notable for its 18th-century headstones, which include skull and cherub motifs, as well as table tombs and oval bodystones.
Local climate
Church of St Nicholas sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 700 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 90% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 52% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 7 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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