Menai Courthouse Church is a Grade II listed building in the Isle of Anglesey local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 18 July 1997. Courthouse.

Menai Courthouse Church

WRENN ID
knotted-arch-cream
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Isle of Anglesey
Constituency
Ynys Môn MP: Llinos Medi (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
18 July 1997
Type
Courthouse
Address
Menai Courthouse Church, Menai Bridge
OS grid reference
SH 557 717
Coordinates
53.22332, -4.1622
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Menai Courthouse Church is a two-storey building with a two-bay elevation, notable for the round-arched windows of the former courtroom located in the principal upper storey. These windows are positioned beneath paired gabled dormers that project from the main hipped roof. The walls are made of rendered and painted limestone, featuring stressed plain quoins, and topped with a hipped slate roof. The entrance is located to the right, with small paired 4-pane sash windows to the left. The upper windows are recessed in tall round-arched openings and consist of paired 8-pane sashes with geometric glazing in the tympanum of the arch. There are oculi in the gable apexes above. A porch, set back to the right, provides access to the upper storey, featuring a square-headed entrance with limestone dressings and a cornice. A wrought iron gate leads to the porch, which has a boarded door behind it.

Inside, the main courtroom features a panelled wooden magistrates bench with a sloping top supported by decorative scrolled wooden brackets, along with a bench seat at the front. Three sets of painted wooden bench seating face the magistrates bench, with backs supported by chamfered balusters. The magistrates room, located in a later extension at the rear of the building, includes original boarded shutters on the door to the right. The lower storey rooms retain original doors and cupboards.

Local climate

Menai Courthouse Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,210 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 92% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 93% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 23 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 75% of listed buildings. Of these, 11 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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