Church of St Mary and St Radegund is a Grade I listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 29 December 1966. A C19 (restoration 1896-7) Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Mary and St Radegund

WRENN ID
grim-casement-yarrow
Grade
I
Local Planning Authority
Folkestone and Hythe
Constituency
Ashford MP: Sojan Joseph (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
29 December 1966
Type
Church
Period
C19 (restoration 1896-7)
Address
Church of St Mary and St Radegund, the Street, Postling, CT21 4EX
OS grid reference
TR 145 390
Coordinates
51.11095, 1.06371
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Mary and St. Radegund is a parish church largely dating to the late 11th or 12th centuries, with additions from the 13th and 19th centuries. It was restored in 1896-7. The church is constructed of roughly coursed stone and flint rubble with stone dressings, and has plain tile roofs and a shingled spire. It comprises a west tower, nave, south porch, and chancel.

The west tower, dating to the 13th century, is a single stage structure with integral pilaster buttresses to the west and a stone eaves band. It features a splay-footed spire. Belfry windows are two 19th-century lancets to the north and south, with small, rectangular, louvred openings also present on the west and south faces. A moulded pointed-arched doorway is located on the west face.

The south elevation of the nave exhibits late 11th or 12th-century flint construction with bands of herringbone stonework; it includes one 19th-century lancet window, and a 15th-century two-light window with cusped ogee-headed lights within a squared head, under a hoodmould. The south porch dates to 1825 and is constructed of roughcast with a gabled plain-tile roof. It features a round-headed outer doorway with a datestone "G.S." and an inner pointed-arched and chamfered doorway dated 1825 with broach stops.

The chancel, also dating to the late 11th or 12th centuries, was extended later, likely in the 13th century. It incorporates north-east and south-east angle buttresses, two 19th-century trefoil-headed south lancets, and a 19th-century three-light pointed-arched east window with a hoodmould. The north side has two restored lancets of uneven size.

The north elevation of the nave features a buttress, a broad hollow-chamfered lancet window towards the east, a small round-headed window, and a 19th-century lancet towards the west.

Inside, the chancel arch has late 11th or 12th-century nicked and chamfered imposts, with enrichment, and a pointed and chamfered arch rebuilt in the 13th century. There is no tower arch. Moulded rere-arches are present to the north nave lancets. The nave has a crown-post roof with four moulded octagonal crown-posts on moulded tie-beams, as well as sous-laces, ashlar-pieces, and a moulded cornice. A similar roof is found in the chancel with renewed crown-posts. Other fittings include a piscina with a renewed trefoiled head in the south wall of the chancel, a small trefoil-headed opening opposite, a pointed-arched opening to the east end of the south wall of the nave, and a chamfered segmental-headed opening to the north-west end of the chancel. A font possesses a deep, rectangular, tapering stone bowl on five shafts with bell bases. Stumps of moulded, coloured beams are located on stone corbels at the north and south ends of the rood beam towards the east end of the nave, and at the south end of a beam halfway down the chancel, with a smaller uncoloured stump also on a corbel nearby. A small dedication stone in the north wall of the chancel gives a date (14th August) without a year. Fragments of 12th-century wall-paintings are present in the south-west corner of the nave, displaying a frieze of zig-zag bands with stylized flowers, and a probable 17th-century fragment superimposed on the west wall.

Local climate

Church of St Mary and St Radegund receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 69% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 76% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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