Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building in the Canterbury local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 January 1967. A C13 Church. 3 related planning applications.
Church of St Mary the Virgin
- WRENN ID
- second-moat-ivory
- 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 Mary the Virgin, Church Lane, Chislet, CT3 4DU
- OS grid reference
- TR 224 643
- Coordinates
- 51.33433, 1.19209
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Mary the Virgin is a Grade I listed building located on Church Lane in Chislet. It features a chancel, central tower, and nave with aisles, constructed from coursed rubble with Caen stone dressings. The nave and tower date back to the Norman period, while the chancel and the aisles were built in the 13th century. The tower originally had a brached shingled spire, of which only the stump remains today.
Inside, there is a priest's chamber at the west end of the north aisle, which retains its windows and the brackets that supported the floor above. The south doorway to the staircase turret features a 12th-century carved tympanum with a rare timber lintel. The nave has a crownpost roof, a trefoiled piscina, and early 14th-century sedilia. Additionally, there is a 14th-century font. The churchyard contains several 18th-century headstones adorned with skull or cherub motifs, along with some chest tombs and oval bodystones.
Local climate
Church of St Mary the Virgin 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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- No EPC on record for this property
- No sale records on file
- Related listed building consents — 3 applications
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