The Corpus Christi Hall is a Grade II* listed building in the Maidstone local planning authority area, England. First listed on 30 July 1951. A Medieval Hall.
The Corpus Christi Hall
- WRENN ID
- dark-brick-fen
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Maidstone
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 30 July 1951
- Type
- Hall
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- The Corpus Christi Hall, Earl Street
- OS grid reference
- TQ 758 558
- Coordinates
- 51.27425, 0.51942
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Corpus Christi Hall is a Grade II* listed building located on Earl Street in Maidstone. Originally built in the 15th century, it served as a Hall, Refectory, Chapel, and Cloisters for the Guild or Fraternity of Corpus Christi, which was founded around 1422. After the Suppression of the Fraternity, the building was given to the town for use as a Grammar School in 1549, a function it maintained until 1871. Today, only the Refectory remains.
This L-shaped building is two stories high with attics and constructed of stone rubble, topped with a tiled roof. The main facade faces east and features two hipped dormers. It has two pointed windows with cinquefoil-headed lights and a quatrefoil above, supported by stone mullions and a transom, while the outer windows have been modernized. The gable end facing Earl Street is timbered with red brick infilling. The west wing has stone rubble on the ground floor and imitation timbering above, with two square-headed windows containing three cinquefoil-headed lights, each with dripstones above.
Inside, the hall features two crown posts with chamfered tie beams and a screens passage with five stone arches. There are also traces of a wooden partition that once divided the hall into two sections. The building was formerly a Scheduled Monument.
Local climate
The Corpus Christi Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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