Church of St Vincent is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. Church. 8 related planning applications.
Church of St Vincent
- WRENN ID
- buried-moulding-heath
- 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 Vincent, Church Road, Littlebourne, CT3 1UA
- OS grid reference
- TR 210 578
- Coordinates
- 51.27703, 1.16811
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Vincent is a 13th-century flint church, located on the north-east side of Littlebourne Church Road. It includes a chancel, higher than the nave and with aisles, a south porch (dated to the 19th century), and a west tower topped with a broached shingled spire.
The church has a four-bay nave with a crown post roof. There is a trace of wall painting on the north side of the aisles. Internal features include two piscinas and a north arcade with two plain round arches springing from a square Tuscan pier.
The churchyard contains a variety of headstones, including some 18th-century examples with skull, cherub or cherub and hourglass motifs, and some 19th-century oval headstones.
Local climate
Church of St Vincent 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 greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 10 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 90% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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 — 1 transaction since 2014
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- 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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