Church of Saint Paul is a Grade II listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 October 1982. Church.
Church of Saint Paul
- WRENN ID
- twelfth-steel-frost
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 October 1982
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of Saint Paul, School Lane, Swanley
- OS grid reference
- TQ 529 697
- Coordinates
- 51.40622, 0.19781
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Paul, designed by Ewan Christian, was built between 1860 and 1861, with the tower completed from 1862 to 1865. It is constructed of stone rubble and features bands of polychrome brick decoration in yellow and red. The church includes a nave and an apsidal-ended chancel, along with a central west tower topped by a shingled spire and a south porch. The windows showcase decorated tracery.
Inside, the chancel is adorned with mosaics and frescoes depicting Christ and eight angels, as well as stained glass created by Schingley and Hunt of Lancaster.
Local climate
Church of Saint Paul sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 64% 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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