Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 August 1959. A C.1200 Church.
Church of St Peter and St Paul
- WRENN ID
- half-garret-autumn
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Tonbridge MP: Tom Tugendhat (Con)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 August 1959
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Peter and St Paul, Church Road, Trottiscliffe
- OS grid reference
- TQ 646 605
- Coordinates
- 51.32018, 0.36125
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of St Peter and St Paul is a Grade I listed building dating from around 1200. It is constructed of flint with tufa dressings and has plain tiled roofs. The church features a south-west tower, a narrow nave, and an unusually long chancel. It includes early 16th-century windows and flat-headed two-light belfry openings. There is a pointed arched doorway on the south side of the tower, with a 13th-century doorway behind it, which is concealed by the tower's addition. The original north and south windows are present in the chancel.
Inside, the church has a collar-rafter roof and a piscina that is built in one piece with a 14th-century window. The reredos is made of wood and dates from the early 18th century, featuring two cartouches carved with reliefs of the Circumcision and the Flight into Egypt, although it was not originally made for the church. The altar rails, also of wood and from the early 18th century, have twisted balusters, enriched newels, and leaf bosses, and were not made for the church either. The pulpit, created in 1775 by Henry Keene, was originally for Westminster Abbey, where it stood until 1824. It features a palm tree carrying a sounding board, with decoration that combines Gothic and classical styles, including oval wheel motifs on the sides. The reading desk is composed of Jacobean remnants. The stained glass includes a west window from 1885 by Ward and Hughes and a window by Gibbs.
Local climate
Church of St Peter and St Paul receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 75% 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 31 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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