Church of St Martin of Tours is a Grade II* listed building in the Dover local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 August 1966. Church.
Church of St Martin of Tours
- WRENN ID
- night-pedestal-foxglove
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Dover
- Constituency
- Dover and Deal MP: Mike Tapp (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 August 1966
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Martin of Tours, the Street, Guston
- OS grid reference
- TR 322 447
- Coordinates
- 51.15471, 1.31954
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Martin of Tours is a parish church located in Guston, dating back to the 12th century, with restoration work carried out in the late 19th century. The building is constructed of flint and features a plain tiled roof. It comprises a chancel and nave, along with a north porch, a south vestry, and a western bell turret. Notable architectural elements include a large central triple offset buttress on the west wall, topped with a timber and shingled turret and spirelet over the 14th-century south vestry. The north porch has a simple chamfered outer arch and a 12th-century north doorway, which is adorned with wave and roll moulding on attached shafts, including one scalloped capital and another to the west featuring overlapping rings.
The church has 19th-century windows throughout, except for the original 12th-century triple round-headed lancet east window. Inside, the church reveals the windows and features a 12th-century tie beam roof, with the area above the collar beams ceiled in. The chancel is stepped and has a 19th-century trussed rafter roof. The interior fittings include 19th-century floriate brass brackets for the altar rail light, a three-bay chancel screen without tracery, a pulpit, a font, and benches, including one at the southwest with an attached poor box. The glass in the nave commemorates Francis William Prescott, who died in 1919, and is now very dark blue, purples, and orange, creating a broad composition that contrasts with the more typical 19th-century glass found elsewhere in the church.
Local climate
Church of St Martin of Tours receives an average of 780 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 84% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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