Galnrafon Evangelical Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 December 1989. Evangelical church.

Galnrafon Evangelical Church

WRENN ID
second-thatch-rowan
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 December 1989
Type
Evangelical church
Address
Galnrafon Evangelical Church, Llangollen
OS grid reference
SJ 213 420
Coordinates
52.97029, -3.17264
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Galnrafon Evangelical Church is a 2-storey building featuring a scribed render front with a pediment treatment. The facade includes acroteria bases and a central round arch that rises through the pediment. It has a slate roof with ventilators and a tiled ridge. The upper part of the church showcases composite capitals and fluted pilasters, with the left pilaster being partly unfluted. Above a date plaque, there is a bulls eye window at the center. The gallery level has 2 and 3-light windows that are deeply recessed round arched sash windows, complete with marginal glazing bars, keystones, and bracket cills. Below, there are 2-light windows with triangular heads that rise up to the entablature, flanked by plain pilasters. The central entrance features paired round arched headed panelled doors. Foundation stones commemorate the original congregational church established by William Williams around 1800.

To the right, there is a 4-bay pebbledashed section with a cill band and sash windows that have marginal glazing bars and cement architraves; the gallery windows are round arched headed, while those below are square headed. An outbuilding is attached to this side. The left side is similar, and the rear is plain with band courses. The front has a railed forecourt that includes a barley twist lamp standard and railings made by John Davies of Ty Coch, Llangollen.

Inside, there is a raked gallery supported by fluted cast iron piers, with pitch pine panelled woodwork throughout. A tall semicircular arch is located behind the 'set fawr', adorned with fluted pilasters and foliage decoration in the tympanum. The boarded ceiling features a cornice, roses, and arabesque ornament surrounding a central ventilator panel.

Local climate

Galnrafon Evangelical Church receives an average of 920 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 73% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 48 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 89% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 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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