St Catherine's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 February 1995. Gate lodge. 4 related planning applications.

St Catherine's Church

WRENN ID
nether-lancet-vetch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Snowdonia National Park
Constituency
Dwyfor Meirionnydd MP: Liz Saville Roberts (PC)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
1 February 1995
Type
Gate lodge
Address
St Catherine's Church, Arthog, Gwynedd
OS grid reference
SH 645 146
Coordinates
52.71224, -4.00631
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St Catherine's Church is a small, simple single-cell chapel built of rubble, featuring a medium pitched slate roof. The south side has three large arched leaded windows with simple tripartite wooden tracery and geometric tracery heads; the right window has a blocked entrance beneath it. The east wall has a similar window with two quatrefoils above three cusped lancets. At the west gable, there is a plain pedimented rubble bell-cote with an arched opening.

The church has a simple single-storey gabled porch with kneelered slate-coped parapets and a stone cross at the apex. The porch features an arched entrance with a stone seat and two boarded doors, one leading to the nave and the other, off to the north, providing access to an internal gallery. This gallery is reached via an added gabled stair projection that is slightly set back from and adjoins the porch to the north. There is a slit window on the ground floor with an arched leaded lancet above. Above the porch on the west wall, there is a plain leaded oculus.

To the north wall, there is a gabled late 19th-century vestry addition with a depressed arched window containing a two-light wooden mullion with shaped, arched lights. Adjacent to this, set back slightly, is a wider gabled projection made of snecked rubble, which is an early 20th-century boiler house with a flat, buttress-like chimney against the north wall of the chapel.

Inside, the church features a simple four-bay queen strut roof and a plain tiled floor. The nave and chancel are continuous, with plain early 20th-century pews and a simple wooden west gallery. There are 20th-century biblical texts painted in panels beneath the wall plate. The chancel has earlier 18th-century oak turned altar rails and an arched panelled dado, along with a tripartite wooden retable in a simple Gothic style. The square panelled pulpit and figurative stained glass in the east window commemorate Thomas Taylor of Penmaenucha and Arthog, who died in 1876. There are also early 20th-century wall tablets.

Local climate

St Catherine's Church sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,390 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 95% 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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