Church of All Saints is a Grade II listed building in the Tunbridge Wells local planning authority area, England. First listed on 22 June 1989. Chapel. 8 related planning applications.
Church of All Saints
- WRENN ID
- inner-fireplace-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Tunbridge Wells
- Constituency
- Tunbridge Wells MP: Mike Martin (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 22 June 1989
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Church of All Saints, Rye Road, Hawkhurst, TN18 4EY
- OS grid reference
- TQ 762 305
- Coordinates
- 51.0469, 0.51246
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
The Church of All Saints is a chapel of ease built in 1861 by Sir G G Scott for Reverend H E and Miss C Jennings. It is constructed of sandstone with a plain tiled roof and a shingled spire. The church comprises a chancel, a nave with aisles, a south-eastern tower, and a north porch.
The exterior displays a consistent architectural style, featuring a plinth, string course, offset corner buttresses, and a corbel table leading to parapet-gabled roofs with cross finials. Windows throughout feature paired cusped lancets with trefoils under single hood mouldings, with a wheel window in the western gable and a west window set within blind arcading. Blind arcading is also present on the north wall of the chancel. The three-stage tower includes offset corner buttresses, lancette stair lights, recessed lancet belfry openings with roundels above, a corbel table, and a broach spire. The gabled north porch has arcaded side walls containing integral benches, with a moulded outer and inner doorway featuring attached shafts, hoods, and florid stiff-leaf decoration. The inner door displays high-quality scrolled C-strap hinges.
Inside, the walls are faced with sandstone ashlar. The church has four bay arcades with round piers displaying French-influenced crockets and keel-moulded arches. Corbelled colonettes are present at the responds. An open trussed rafter roof covers the space. The chancel arch is roll and keel moulded, supported on corbels, and simple hood-moulded arches lead from the south aisle and chancel to the tower chapel. The sanctuary has blind arcading with marble shafts and a string course, with windows featuring attached shafts. Fittings include a brass foliage bracketed altar rail, scrolled carved bench ends in the chancel, a brass lectern, and an enriched brass rail to a stone pulpit with dogtooth and water leaf enrichment and relief panels depicting the Apostles on a columned stem. A fluted stem and bowl font features an inscription and a Holy Dove. All fittings were designed by Scott. Glass in the chancel was created by Clayton and Bell in 1861.
Local climate
Church of All Saints receives an average of 740 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 73% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 68% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 26 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 71% of listed buildings. Of these, 12 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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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 10 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 8 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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