Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. A Norman (chancel and nave walls described as Norman) Church. 2 related planning applications.
Church of St Nicholas
- WRENN ID
- narrow-mortar-brook
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Canterbury
- Constituency
- Herne Bay and Sandwich MP: Sir Roger Gale (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Nicholas, Church Lane, Sturry, CT2 0BB
- OS grid reference
- TR 176 601
- Coordinates
- 51.29851, 1.12018
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Nicholas is a Grade I listed building located on Church Lane in Sturry. It is constructed from flint and stone rubble and features a tiled roof. The chancel and the walls of the nave date back to the Norman period, while the tower, which has three stages and a crenellated parapet, includes lower stages from the 12th century with clasping buttresses and banding. The battlements were added in the 15th century. The arcades and aisles are from the 14th to 15th centuries, and the timber-framed north porch is from the 14th century as well. The church has a four-bay nave with a kingpost roof, a piscina, and a font from the 13th century. The churchyard features oval bodystones and several 18th-century headstones adorned with cherub or skull motifs.
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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- 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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