Chapel at the North Wales Hospital is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 15 April 1994. Townhouse.

Chapel at the North Wales Hospital

WRENN ID
muffled-belfry-elder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
15 April 1994
Type
Townhouse
Address
Chapel at the North Wales Hospital, Noth Wales Hospital, Denbigh
OS grid reference
SJ 049 650
Coordinates
53.17416, -3.42393
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Chapel at the North Wales Hospital is an asylum chapel built in a restrained Victorian Gothic style. It features random grey-brown rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs. The building has an aisleless nave with transepts and a polygonal eastern end that includes gabled windows and a square projecting sanctuary. At the crossing, there is an octagonal wooden bellcote topped with a slated fleche that has gablets and a wrought-iron finial.

The west end of the chapel has a four-light window with geometrical tracery, while the nave windows are designed with two-light geometrical tracery. The north and south porches contain doors with ornate hinges and four cusped-light windows facing west. The transepts are supported by stepped buttresses and feature a three-light window with geometrical tracery. The eastern end has three-light windows with intersecting tracery and gables above, along with two-light windows with cinquefoils to the east of these. The projecting sanctuary includes a three-light eastern window with geometrical tracery and stepped buttresses. At the time of inspection, all the eastern end windows containing stained glass were boarded internally and externally.

Inside, the chapel has a simple design with an open scissor roof supported by iron tie-bars and a wooden panelled screen at the eastern end. The eastern window features stained glass created by James Ballantine in 1861, and stained glass is present in all eastern end windows except for the southeast window.

Local climate

Chapel at the North Wales Hospital 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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