Church of St Michael 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 Michael

WRENN ID
sacred-oriel-mallow
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 Michael, Church Hill, Harbledown and Rough Common, CT2 8NW
OS grid reference
TR 131 581
Coordinates
51.28257, 1.05566
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael, located on Church Hill in Harbledown, features traces of Norman and decorated work but is primarily from the 19th century. It is constructed of flint and stone with a tiled roof. The church comprises a chancel, a nave with a south aisle, and a weatherboarded bell turret at the west end of the nave. The south aisle and liner chapel represent the medieval church, which underwent significant restoration and was largely rebuilt between 1880 and 1881, with the nave and chancel designed by J P St Aubyn. Notable architectural features include a crown post roof and pointed chamfered doorways on the south and west. The churchyard contains some 18th-century headstones adorned with cherub or skull motifs, as well as some oval bodystones.

Local climate

Church of St Michael 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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