English Methodist Church with former Sunday School is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Church.

English Methodist Church with former Sunday School

WRENN ID
woven-clay-saffron
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 1994
Type
Church
Address
English Methodist Church with former Sunday School, Rhyl
OS grid reference
SJ 011 814
Coordinates
53.32068, -3.48558
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The English Methodist Church, which includes a former Sunday School, is constructed from random black granite rubble with ashlar dressings and features a steep slate roof adorned with scalloped bands, some ridge cresting, and coped gables topped with cross finials. It is designed in a simple Early English style. The main body of the church consists of five bays separated by buttresses, each featuring a wide lancet window with margin-light glazing. There is a gabled porch on the northwest side, showcasing chamfered and cusped timberwork, along with a wrought-iron finial on the gable. The transepts and the north gable have stepped lancet windows, with the north gable window set in a raised central panel that includes an oculus at the apex.

To the south, a small corridor leads to a vestry and the Sunday School, which is dated 1878 above the doorway and features a chamfered arched door and paired foiled lancets. The west elevation has a stepped three-light window in the lower gabled bay, while the south elevation displays paired central stepped lancet windows beneath dormer gables, flanked by two three-light mullioned windows on either side.

Inside, the church has a wide single space with shallow transepts and a sanctuary, along with a gallery at the west end that was added in 1871. The roof consists of five bays, with collar trusses originating from wall posts supported by stone corbels, and a short king post beneath a boarded and pierced ceiling. Wrought-iron tie bars are present, and over the crossing, the trusses are arranged diagonally with a central king-post. The west gallery is supported by cast-iron columns with foliate capitals, and features chamfered panelling, along with a trefoiled glazed panelled screen that forms a separate room below, originally used as the Sunday School. The sanctuary has plain panelled arcading, which conceals painted texts, and includes a small marble font supported by clustered shafts. The heavy wooden pulpit, likely contemporary to the church, is octagonal with trefoiled panels. An organ is located in the east transept and features a pedimented case. Stained glass in both transept windows displays heraldic emblems and floral motifs, although the date is undetermined. The seating appears to be from the late 19th century. The Sunday School, located beyond the vestry to the south, is a single hall with a lower bay screened off to the west.

Local climate

English Methodist Church with former Sunday School sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% of listed buildings. Of these, 10 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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