Church of St Peter Ad Vincula is a Grade II* listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1959. Church.
Church of St Peter Ad Vincula
- WRENN ID
- weathered-mantel-storm
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Maidstone and Malling MP: Helen Grant (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter Ad Vincula, New Road, Ditton
- OS grid reference
- TQ 709 580
- Coordinates
- 51.29589, 0.45111
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter ad Vincula is a Grade II* listed building located on New Road in Ditton. It dates from the 12th century, with early 14th and 15th-century elements, and was restored in 1860 by Sir George Gilbert Scott. The church is constructed of ragstone rubblestone with dressed stone dressings and has a plain tiled roof. It features a plain 15th-century two-stage tower with a string course below a plain coped parapet, and the main entrance is located in the west front of the tower.
The nave has three windows, including two unrestored early 14th-century windows on the east side with curvilinear tracery. The chancel has two windows, which are 15th-century square-headed windows with drip moulds and cusped pointed arched lights. An early 14th-century type east window was added by Scott. Inside, the church has a braced and trussed roof with plaster infilling, and the chancel arch was replaced by Scott.
Notable monuments include one for Richard Brown, who died in 1672, erected after 1691, featuring a tablet with a scrolly open pediment, side scrolls, swags, and a winged figure below. There is also stained glass from the early 14th century in the left-hand window of the north side of the nave.
Local climate
Church of St Peter Ad Vincula sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 76% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 76% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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