Church of St Curig is a Grade II listed building in the Snowdonia National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 23 January 1998. Church.
Church of St Curig
- WRENN ID
- tattered-arch-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Snowdonia National Park
- Constituency
- Bangor Aberconwy MP: Claire Hughes (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 23 January 1998
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Curig, Capel Curig, Conwy
- OS grid reference
- SH 721 581
- Coordinates
- 53.10494, -3.91162
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Curig is a church built from local dark rubble with bathstone dressings and slate roofs. The west end features two round-arched windows and a bell-cote that is corbelled out below the gable. There is a gabled southwest porch. The nave is aisleless and has round-arched windows arranged in groups of two, two, one, and two, separated by buttresses. The chancel is apsidal and has foiled windows under hoodmoulds. The eastern end of the chancel includes a bathstone niche that houses a statue of a youthful male saint. There is a northeast vestry with plate tracery and a chimney located at the northwest corner of the nave.
Inside, the simple aisleless interior is faced in brick with bathstone dressings. The arches leading to the chancel and apse are supported by polychrome marble dwarf shafts on corbels. A low wall at the chancel contains a semi-circular stone pulpit on the left and a marble lectern on the right. The apse features a magnificent mosaic, approximately six meters in diameter, depicting Christ enthroned in majesty against a golden background, with the inscription "Saltator Mundi." He is flanked by angels swinging censers, and above him are bands of cherubim and seraphim. Below, roundels include symbols of the evangelists and the Lamb of God.
Local climate
Church of St Curig sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,260 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 93% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 89% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 49 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 91% of listed buildings. Of these, 30 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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