Church of St Lawrence is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. A Post-Medieval Church. 1 related planning application.

Church of St Lawrence

WRENN ID
second-moat-summer
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Maidstone
Constituency
Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
Country
England
Date first listed
26 April 1968
Type
Church
Period
Post-Medieval
Address
Church of St Lawrence, Bunce Court Road, Otterden, ME13 0BU
OS grid reference
TQ 947 541
Coordinates
51.25357, 0.78919
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The Church of St. Lawrence is a parish church built between 1753 and 1759, possibly designed by the Reverend Granville Wheler of Otterden Place, on the foundations of a medieval nave. The chancel was added in 1894. It is constructed of red brick in Flemish bond and has a plain tile roof. The church is rectangular in shape and features a very small chapel or alcove for monuments on the north side, along with a small chancel.

The exterior includes a brick plinth with plain ashlar coping, rusticated ashlar stone quoins, a broad wooden eaves band, projecting eaves with flat soffits, and single plain modillions. The roof is hipped. The west front, facing Otterden Place, has two niches with round-arched rubbed brick heads and stone cills, along with three blank rectangular recesses above. The central entrance features a fielded panelled door with a slightly segmental head, a plain stone architrave, and a triple keystone, topped with a moulded cornice. The south side has three mid-19th century round-headed stone windows.

Inside, the church displays mid-18th century detailing, including Chinese Chippendale benches. There are brasses commemorating Thomas Seintlegier, who died in 1408; Isobel Chyrche, who died in 1488; John Aucher, who died in 1502; and James Aucher, who died in 1508. Notable monuments include a standing wall monument to William Lewin, who died in 1598, made of alabaster and featuring recumbent figures flanked by Corinthian columns; a monument to John Bunce, who died in 1611, with kneeling figures at a prayer desk; and a monument to Sir Justinian Lewin, who died in 1620, attributed to Epiphanius Evesham. This monument is made of alabaster and black marble, depicting a lying figure, a kneeling woman, and a daughter beside them, with flanking columns bearing pediments. Additional memorials include a slab for Margaret Slatyer, who died in 1654, a cartouche for Sir George Curteis, who died in 1702, adorned with putti, and a scrolled cartouche for Ann Curteis, who died in 1722.

Local climate

Church of St Lawrence sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 730 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 80% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 75% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 27 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 13 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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