Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. A C13 to C15 Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- quiet-minaret-ash
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Canterbury MP: Rosie Duffield (Ind)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Upper Hardres, CT4 6EN
- OS grid reference
- TR 152 507
- Coordinates
- 51.21521, 1.08114
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building located in Upper Hardres. It is constructed of flint, with the nave made of unknapped flints. The chancel and nave are not divided, and there is a south chapel and south aisle, with a tower situated between them and a south porch. The church dates from the 13th to the 15th centuries, featuring a Norman tower. Some windows contain glass from around 1200 and 14th-century stained glass, with some pieces brought from Stelling Church in the 18th century. The church has a shallow 18th-century west gallery and a crown post roof in the nave. Inside, there is a Norman font and wall monuments from the 17th and 18th centuries. The churchyard includes some 18th-century headstones with skull motifs, as well as one headstone featuring a heart, cherubs, bones, and an hourglass motif.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
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- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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