Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Parish church. 2 related planning applications.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- twisted-grate-gold
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Parish church
- Address
- Christ Church, Boughton Hill, Dunkirk, ME13 9LE
- OS grid reference
- TR 074 589
- Coordinates
- 51.2915, 0.97446
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Christ Church is a parish church dating from 1840, designed by John Whichcord. It is constructed of flint with a slate roof. The church comprises a chancel, nave, and a two-stage west tower with diagonal buttresses, a string course, cornice, and parapet. The western doorway has a four-centred arch with a label over it. Perpendicular style tracery is present in the three windows on each side of the nave. The nave walls are buttressed north and south. The church demonstrates advanced and accurate styling for its date. The interior was restored in the late 20th century. It was built after the Courtenay riots of 1838, using flint donated from the Canterbury City walls by the Archbishop of Canterbury. The church forms a group with the vicarage and the school, intended to improve the previously extra parochial and lawless village of Dunkirk.
Local climate
Christ Church 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 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 16 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 84% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 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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- Sale history — 1 transaction since 2007
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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