Former Methodist Church including Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Tonbridge and Malling local planning authority area, England. First listed on 2 April 1990. Church. 1 related planning application.
Former Methodist Church including Sunday School
- WRENN ID
- dusted-grate-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tonbridge and Malling
- Constituency
- Chatham and Aylesford MP: Tristan Osborne (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 2 April 1990
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Former Methodist Church including Sunday School, The Old Church, 31, Rochester Road, Aylesford, ME20 7BS
- OS grid reference
- TQ 731 590
- Coordinates
- 51.3041, 0.48325
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Old Church, formerly a Methodist Church including a Sunday School, was built around 1850 and is constructed of Kentish ragstone. It features a slate roof with a gable end supported by kneelers. The windows are notable for their unusual octagonal glazing, which is characteristic of the parish. The west end has a prominent large triple lancet window with corbel heads, and there are angled buttresses on the sides. The church has north and south gabled porches with ribbed wooden doors. Inside, there are five lancet windows for the pews and an apsidal-ended chancel with colored glass.
The interior includes a gallery that is supported by octagonal fluted columns, with panels divided by pilasters. The edge of the gallery features stick balusters. The roof is boarded, with a scissor truss in the chancel and two arched braces in the nave. Original elements such as pews, a pulpit, a proscription panel, and an organ case are still present. Attached to the east is a single-storey Sunday School made of ragstone and slate.
Local climate
Former Methodist Church including Sunday School 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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