Church of St Catherine is a Grade II listed building in the Conwy local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 9 September 1994. Church.

Church of St Catherine

WRENN ID
crumbling-lancet-sedge
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Conwy
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
9 September 1994
Type
Church
Address
Church of St Catherine, Old Colwyn
OS grid reference
SH 866 783
Coordinates
53.28993, -3.70248
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Catherine is a Grade II listed building made from very roughly coursed and squared local limestone, with roughcast render on the chancel and slate roofs. It features a west tower, an aisle-less nave, and a chancel, with a vestry addition to the south. The two-stage west tower has a wide lancet window on the west side and a chamfered arched doorway to the south. The bell chamber has simple plain chamfered lights, and there is a clock on the north face. The tower is topped with a stepped embattled parapet and plain pinnacles at the corners.

The nave includes a coped gabled porch with buttresses and a plain chamfered arch facing northwest. It has a two-light window with intersecting tracery and a broad lancet window to the northeast of the nave and north of the chancel. The east window is a four-light design with intersecting tracery.

Inside, the simple nave and chancel are articulated into five bays by the principal arched braced collar trusses of the roof, although there are only two windows on each side. The windows, along with the north window of the chancel, feature emblematic stained glass with floral and foliage motifs on geometric forms, created by Cox, Sons, Buckley and Co. in 1886. A low stone screen separates the chancel from the nave, and the sanctuary has an encaustic tiled floor. The chancel arch and the arch to the organ chamber to the south are surrounded by painted stencilled text. The north and south walls of the chancel are also adorned with stencilled decoration, and painted metal panels on either side of the east window illustrate biblical themes. The stained glass in the east window, depicting the crucifixion with Saints Catherine and Asaph, dates to 1892 and replaces an earlier window from 1844 by Clutterbuck.

Local climate

Church of St Catherine sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 70% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 31 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 63% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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