Tower of St Hilary's Church is a Grade I listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Church tower.
Tower of St Hilary's Church
- WRENN ID
- eastward-balcony-spring
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Church tower
- Address
- Tower of St Hilary's Church, Denbigh - Castle, Denbigh
- OS grid reference
- SJ 052 659
- Coordinates
- 53.18177, -3.41985
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Tower of St Hilary's Church is a square, three-stage embattled structure, standing approximately 14 meters high. It is built of limestone rubble with green and red/brown sandstone dressings. The west entrance features a pointed arch with an inner arch and a continuous moulding that lacks capitals. This entrance contains a ribbed, boarded door, likely from the 16th century, although it has undergone some restorations.
The second stage of the tower has single lights on the south and north faces, while the bell stage is adorned with paired, arched windows that include horizontal wooden slatting. At the top, there is a crenellated parapet above a simple string course, complemented by straightforward projecting sandstone gargoyles.
Additionally, the west gable of the nave remains intact and includes a blocked four-centred arch leading to the tower.
Local climate
Tower of St Hilary's Church sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 960 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 75% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 59% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 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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