Church of Saint Mary is a Grade I listed building in the Sevenoaks local planning authority area, England. First listed on 1 June 1967. A Medieval Church.
Church of Saint Mary
- WRENN ID
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- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Sevenoaks
- Constituency
- Sevenoaks MP: Laura Trott (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 1 June 1967
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of Saint Mary, Fawkham Road
- OS grid reference
- TQ 597 680
- Coordinates
- 51.38899, 0.29386
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of Saint Mary is a Grade I listed building located on Fawkham Road. It features a Norman nave and chancel, adorned with Decorated windows. At the west end of the nave, there is a 16th-century octagonal weatherboarded bell turret topped with a shingled spire. The vestry to the north and the south porch were added in the 19th century. The nave and chancel are now rendered, with stone window surrounds. Inside, there are bellcote supports made of four posts, which are braced at the top with pierced spandrels. A 14th-century cusped arch is located in the south wall of the nave, alongside an earlier arch in the north wall of the chancel. There is also a 14th-century double piscina featuring cusped Y-tracery. A 13th-century wall painting depicting Christ in Majesty can be found in the nave, along with some medieval stained glass fragments in the south window of the chancel. Additionally, there is a hanging monument dedicated to John Walter, who died in 1625.
Local climate
Church of Saint Mary 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 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 86% 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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