Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea is a Grade II listed building in the Thanet local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 January 1982. A Modern Church.
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
- WRENN ID
- tenth-spire-pearl
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Thanet
- Constituency
- East Thanet MP: Ms Polly Billington (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 January 1982
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Modern
- Address
- Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, Broadstairs Road, Broadstairs and St. Peters
- OS grid reference
- TR 387 679
- Coordinates
- 51.36084, 1.42866
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea, built between 1930 and 1931 by Sir Giles Scott and completed in 1961, is located on Broadstairs Road in Broadstairs. The church is constructed of flint with stone dressings and features a pantiled roof.
The north tower has two narrow lancets and a chequered brick tympanum set within a tall blank arch on all faces. The nave is broad and has seven bays, resembling a domestic structure, with four-light windows and an open trussed roof. The second bay from the west opens to a transeptal Sacred Heart altar on the north side and a similar transeptal Lady Chapel on the south side, each with a two-light window. The westernmost bays function as shallow transept-like 'chapels', containing the confessional on the north and the baptistry on the south.
To the west, beyond a broad round unchamfered arch, lies the narthex with a gallery above. The church has an immensely high apsidal chancel, which is illuminated from the east and west, and a low broad chancel arch. The altar rails and pulpit are splendidly carved in a 17th-century style, while the pews are of simple design.
Local climate
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea 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 greater than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 8 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 94% of listed buildings. Of these, 4 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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