Denbigh Friary is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. A Medieval Church.
Denbigh Friary
- WRENN ID
- woven-mantel-saffron
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Denbigh Friary, Denbigh - Town
- OS grid reference
- SJ 059 665
- Coordinates
- 53.18782, -3.40916
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Denbigh Friary consists of the ruins of a former friary church, which features an aisleless design with a continuous nave and chancel plan. The structure is built from rough-dressed limestone, with some buff and brown sandstone dressings and later brown brick infill. The church is roofless and has lost its western gable, while the north and south walls remain standing to wall plate height, and the eastern gable is intact. The eastern gable includes a large pointed-arched window with Perpendicular tracery, featuring five lights and a cusped tracery head, which has been partially bricked up. On the south side, there are three window openings and an entrance, while the north side has two window openings, including a blocked five-light window with grouped, arched lights in the chancel. The south wall of the choir displays a heavily-weathered three-seat sedilia, accompanied by a simple piscina to the east. The chancel and much of the nave have stone-flagged floors.
Local climate
Denbigh Friary 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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