Church of St Margaret is a Grade II listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 26 April 1968. A Norman Church.
Church of St Margaret
- WRENN ID
- burning-turret-furze
- 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
- Norman
- Address
- Church of St Margaret, Church Road, Hucking
- OS grid reference
- TQ 844 582
- Coordinates
- 51.2937, 0.64451
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St. Margaret is a parish church dating from the early Norman period around 1100, with restoration work completed in 1878. It is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features a plain tile roof. The church consists of a continuous nave and chancel, a south chapel, a north aisle, and a north porch. At the west end of the nave roof, there is a small square louvred wooden belfry topped with a plain tile roof and a weathervane. The building lacks a plinth and has a 19th-century stone stack on the north aisle. The west end is predominantly 19th-century flint with 19th-century lancet windows. There is also tufa, likely inserted, in the south end of the west wall.
The south chapel, most of the chancel, and part of the east wall of the north aisle retain their original flint walls, enhanced with 19th-century dressings. The chapel features small cusped 19th-century windows, while the south wall of the chancel has two 19th-century 2-light pointed windows, and the north wall has two similar windows. The east window is a 19th-century 3-light window in the Early English style. There is a small restored single light window in the east end of the north aisle, and the north porch is also from the 19th century. The church door has a 4-centred arched head with a plain chamfer and broach stops, accompanied by a plain stoup to the east, which is probably medieval.
Inside, the church features a 2-bay north arcade with round-headed arches; the east arch has 19th-century quoins, while the west arch has tufa quoins at the base of the west pier. There is a small blocked round-headed door towards the west end of the south wall, and some medieval stonework can be seen in the jambs of the chancel windows. The roof is from the 19th century, and there is a partly renewed cusped piscina in the south wall of the chancel, along with a similar uncusped piscina in the south chapel. The pulpit, dating from the 18th century, has a moulded base, a corniced top, and fielded panels of burred wood, resting on later feet. A large circular marble font, made of pink and grey marble on a black marble base and donated in 1867, resembles one found at Bicknor. Additionally, there is a plain tomb slab with a tapered end for Elizabeth Cosbey, who died in 1644, located at the west end of the north aisle.
Local climate
Church of St Margaret 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 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 78% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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