Ruins of Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Folkestone and Hythe local planning authority area, England. First listed on 11 March 1975. Church.
Ruins of Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- twisted-rafter-umber
- 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
- Address
- Ruins of Christ Church, Sandgate Road
- OS grid reference
- TR 223 357
- Coordinates
- 51.07771, 1.17354
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The ruins of Christ Church, built between 1850 and 1851 by Sydney Smith, are located on Sandgate Road in Folkestone. Currently, only the tower remains, as the rest of the church was destroyed by a bomb during the Second World War. The tower features four stages and is constructed of stone rubble, with buttresses, crockets, and stone gargoyles adorning the parapet.
Local climate
Ruins of Christ Church 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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