Golden Green Mission Church is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 19 February 1990. Church. 3 related planning applications.
Golden Green Mission Church
- WRENN ID
- noble-rubblework-lark
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 19 February 1990
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Golden Green Mission Church, Three Elm Lane, Hadlow, TN11 0BE
- OS grid reference
- TQ 637 482
- Coordinates
- 51.21, 0.34315
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Golden Green Mission Church is a church that also serves as a community hall, built around 1914. It may have been constructed as a new building or by reusing an existing structure from another location. The church is timber-framed and covered with green-painted corrugated iron.
The layout features a small chapel oriented east-west, consisting of a nave and chancel in a single block, with a north porch at the west end. A later 20th-century kitchen and toilet block, made from matching materials, is located at the rear.
The exterior includes three front windows with pointed arched heads and timber Y-tracery, along with additional windows at each end and one more south of the chancel. The gabled porch has a two-centred outer arch that leads to a plain plank door, and the roof is gable-ended.
Inside, the church has four bays lined with pine tongue-and-groove planking and plain pine trusses, featuring three tiers of purlins, a ridgepiece, and iron supports.
Historically, Kelly's Directory of Kent from 1891 references an "iron church at Golden Green" in relation to the parish church, but the Golden Green Mission Church was not built until after 1914. The land for the church was donated by local landowner Mr. Osim d'Avigdor Goldsmid of Somerhill to the vicar and churchwardens of Hadlow. Since the mid-1970s, the church has also functioned as a community hall.
Local climate
Golden Green Mission Church receives an average of 750 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 58% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% 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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