Church of St Catherine is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 21 March 1985. Church.
Church of St Catherine
- WRENN ID
- blind-minaret-swallow
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 21 March 1985
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Catherine, Down Court Road, Lynsted with Kingsdown
- OS grid reference
- TQ 925 586
- Coordinates
- 51.29427, 0.76006
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Catherine is a parish church built in 1865 by Edward Welby Pugin for Lord Kingsdown. It is constructed from ragstone and features patterned polychrome tile roofs. The church consists of a chancel, nave, and a south-west tower that includes a porch and a vestry to the north. The tower is designed with angle buttresses and a crocketted broach spire, and it has geometric traceried windows.
Inside, the church has a scissor-braced, hammerbeam variant nave roof supported by demi-angels. The chancel arch is hollow chamfered and keel moulded, resting on detached marble shafts. The chancel features an inlaid waggon roof, and there is a carved tympanum above the vestry door. The church retains a full set of contemporary fittings, including a stone reading desk, an octagonal font, pews, an altar rail, choir benches, an arcaded reredos, and a complete set of stained glass dating from around 1867.
Local climate
Church of St Catherine 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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