Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade II* listed building in the Swale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 24 January 1967. Church. 1 related planning application.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- winding-frieze-rowan
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Swale
- Constituency
- Faversham and Mid Kent MP: Helen Whately (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 24 January 1967
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, the Street, Newnham, ME9 0LL
- OS grid reference
- TQ 954 576
- Coordinates
- 51.28426, 0.80065
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a parish church dating from around 1200, with extensions from the 14th century and extensive restoration in 1868. It is constructed of flint and has plain tiled roofs. The church features a chancel with north and south chapels, a nave with aisles, a northwest tower, and a north porch. The two-stage tower has a broach spire and lucarnes, with a heavily restored exterior that includes lancets in the south aisle and south wall of the chancel, while other windows are from the 19th or 15th centuries.
Inside, the nave has a north arcade from around 1200, consisting of two chamfered arches on a square pier and responds with simple abaci, along with a similar arch leading from the north aisle to the tower. The south arcade, dating from the 14th century, has three double hollow chamfered arches on octagonal piers and a similar arch to the south chapel. The roof features four crown posts. The chancel arch is a simple 12th-century arch on abaci with clasped attached shafts. The chancel contains one south lancet and a crenellated wall plate, while the north and south chapels each have roofs with three crown posts and crenellated and moulded wall plates, along with simple chamfered arches leading to the chancel.
Fittings in the church include a cusped piscina, a trefoil-headed niche, and an arched aumbrey in the chancel, as well as a chamfered piscina in the south chapel. There is a full set of 19th-century fittings, including a reredos, altar rails, a double-decker pulpit, box pews, choir stalls and benches, and an octagonal font. Notable monuments include a white marble wall tablet on the south wall of the chancel dedicated to John Hulse, who died in 1681, featuring scrolled and foliated Ionic pilasters, a cherub's head, a draped urn, and a swan-necked pediment, all set on a base adorned with cherubs' heads, brackets, and swags.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul 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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