The Rock Chapel is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 16 November 1962. House.
The Rock Chapel
- WRENN ID
- kindled-ledge-cream
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 16 November 1962
- Type
- House
- Address
- The Rock Chapel, St Beuno's College, Tremeirchion
- OS grid reference
- SJ 081 737
- Coordinates
- 53.25273, -3.37763
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Rock Chapel is a single-cell chapel built from local axe-dressed coursed limestone masonry, featuring a small steeple at the west end. It has a slate roof and a slate-hung spire, with a rounded east end. The chapel is illuminated by seven lancet windows, which are framed in common stonework, and low buttresses alternate with the window positions. A corbel course runs along the eaves.
The entrance is located at the west end, accessed through an outer pointed archway made of common stonework and an inner pointed arch that holds a boarded door hung on wrought-iron hinges. Above the entrance, there is a corbel course with two offsets, leading to a two-stage tower. The lower stage has a trefoil-headed recess that once held a statue, while the upper stage features belfry lights. Above this is a cornice supported by corbels, topped by a spire with an iron cross finial.
Inside, the chapel has a plain interior with exposed roof timbers. The roof is supported by closely set scissor-braced main trusses and features a cambered tie beam.
Local climate
The Rock Chapel 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 56% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 19 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 80% 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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Nearby listed buildings
- Ty-mawr Boundary Wall facing Tremeirchion Road
- Ty-mawr Farmhouse
- Ty-mawr Farm Buildings at South of Yard
- Ty-mawr Farm Buildings at North of Yard
- Ty-mawr Farm Buildings at West of Yard
- Garden steps parallel to south front of St Beuno's (Upper Part)
- Garden steps parallel to south front of St Beuno's (Lower Part)
- The Tremeirchion Cross
- St Beuno's College
- Terrace retaining wall parallel to west front of St Beuno's