Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Including the Presbytery to the South East is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Church.
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Including the Presbytery to the South East
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Folkestone and Hythe
- Constituency
- Folkestone and Hythe MP: Tony Vaughan (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 11 March 1975
- Type
- Church
- OS grid reference
- TR 227 361
- Coordinates
- 51.08107, 1.1787
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, built in 1889 by architect Leonard Stokes, is located on Guildhall Street in Folkestone. This building is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style and constructed from red brick with stone dressings and a tiled roof. The facade facing the road features a prominent 7-light Perpendicular window, flanked by squat square towers that have multiple stone offsets and are topped with battlements extending across the central gable. There are porches at the base of the towers, and brick buttresses on the sides support mullioned windows in between. An octagonal bellcote covered in copper is situated on the left-hand tower. Attached to the church is a presbytery that has three storeys and a basement. The presbytery includes a door with a basket arch on the left and a 3-light mullion window with basket arches above the lights on the right, along with another mullion window featuring square heads above it.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Help of Christians, Including the Presbytery to the South East receives an average of 770 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 63% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 12 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 89% 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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