Church House is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 28 July 1997. Church hall.

Church House

WRENN ID
lost-belfry-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Country
Wales
Date first listed
28 July 1997
Type
Church hall
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

This is a large church hall complex constructed in 1930. It is built of roughcast brick on a rubble plinth and has slate roofs with tiled ridges and feathered eaves. The building's plan consists of a main, double-pile section with two gables, accompanied by irregular, L-shaped flanking pavilions.

The facade is close to symmetrical, featuring a pair of central gables, where the outer pitches are shallower and extended compared to the inner ones. Each gable has two tall, recessed windows with 12 panes, shallow triangular heads, and splayed slate sills. A downpipe with a cast iron hopper, bearing the raised letters "St. C" (for St. Cynfran's) and the date 1930, divides the gables. A further square-headed window with eight panes sits to the left of the left-hand gable.

Attached to the left of the left-hand gable, and set at a lower level, is a hipped-roofed extension that steps down and returns to the front, culminating in an apsidal projection. This projection has a hipped roof and four vertical, rectangular windows, each with an eight-pane casement. A staged brick chimney with tripartite stacks (the central one being higher) and contemporary ceramic pots is located at the angle. An entrance porch, with a wide, chamfered archway that is stopped with a segmental head and ‘in-and-out’ boarded double doors, projects from the angle between the main block and the apsidal wing. A buttress runs flush with the front slopes on the right-hand side. An inset mosaic cross sits above the entrance.

To the right of the main block, a similar, low L-shaped section extends, ending in an advanced gable with a long, feathered inner roof pitch. This forms a catslide roof over a porch in the inner return. It has a shallow triangular-headed opening and a similar unglazed light at the front, with a battered face. Three eight-pane windows are present on the front gable, mirroring the arrangement on the main block. A similar window arrangement is found at the rear, with a further entrance to the advanced catslide porch on the left. A group of three windows is positioned on the north side of the apsidal wing, flanked by paired windows, all with eight panes.

The interiors remain plain and unaltered. Small-pane glazed double doors lead to a vestibule and the main hall. Otherwise, the interiors feature five-panel (horizontal) doors. The design follows the typical spacial arrangement of Colwyn Ffoulkes for similar buildings, creating a main hall (containing a stage at one end) and parish rooms on either side of a corridor opposite the entrance. The hall features pine boarded dado and canted ends to an otherwise plain ceiling. A simple architrave frames the raised stage at the south end, and access is provided on both sides by short balustraded flights of steps leading to small dressing rooms. Toilets and a kitchen are located off the corridor, beyond the apsidal parish room.

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