United Reformed Church (Christ Church) including forecourt walls, piers and gates is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 March 1976. Church.
United Reformed Church (Christ Church) including forecourt walls, piers and gates
- WRENN ID
- dreaming-beam-fern
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Conwy
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 March 1976
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The United Reformed Church (Christ Church) is a building in the Gothic style, likely dating from the 19th century. It features a broad nave, transepts, and a hall located below, with a tower situated at the north-west end. The roof is pitched and covered in slate, highlighted by cresting along the ridge. The church is constructed with stone walls and ashlar dressings.
The main entrance elevation faces northwest, accessed by a wide staircase leading to a doorway on the left and another staircase leading to the tower entrance on the right. The tower's ground floor has a doorway with a trefoil head and an ornate hinge; above this is a narrow lancet window, followed by a blind circular panel. The uppermost storey has a large, pointed belfry opening of two lights, topped by a gable with ball flower ornament. Note that the original octagonal spire with a cruciform finial has been removed. A two-storey, five-sided bay window is set against the tower's southwest wall. To the left of the tower, the main church entrance has an ogee-headed doorway at the top of the staircase, also with ornate hinges. Above this doorway is a rose window flanked by pointed windows with cusping and trefoils. The long walls of the nave are punctuated by five cusped-headed windows, while the hall below has five square-headed, two-light mullioned windows, each separated by a buttress. A blank bay is present at the northern end of the northeast elevation. At the south end of the nave, the end walls of both transepts feature short, wide, pointed Decorated windows with dripstones, set within gables. Below these are three single-light, cusped windows for the church, and three tall, square-headed single-light windows at basement level. To the south of each transeptal wing, a narrow, lower gabled wing extends; one has a trefoil-headed window above and a staircase below leading to a doorway, while the other has two cusped windows above and two square-headed ones below.
The church forecourt, encompassing the northeast, northwest, and southwest sides, is enclosed by low stone walls with ashlar coping, originally including iron railings. Piers with coping and gabled tops stand before the northwest elevation, supporting iron gates.
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