Jesus Chapel is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 1966. Chapel.
Jesus Chapel
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- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 1966
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- Jesus Chapel, Graig Fechan, Ruthin, Llanfair Dyffryn Clwyd
- OS grid reference
- SJ 140 537
- Coordinates
- 53.07373, -3.28465
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Jesus Chapel is a small L-shaped chapel built in rubble masonry with axe-dressed quoins. There are traces of ochre-coloured pigment on the exterior. The roof features a tile ridge and hip, along with a single bellcote over the west gable, topped by a small ball-finial.
The chapel has stone mullion and transom windows, with two on the south side, one on the east, one on the north of the nave, and one on the north gable of the later wing. The entrance boasts a fine door casing with Tuscan pilasters on moulded bases and plinths, supporting simple caps and an inscribed lintel with moulded edges. The inscription notes that the Jesus Chapel was founded and endowed by Rice Williams of Eyarth Uchaf, gentleman, in 1619, consecrated in 1723, and rebuilt in 1787.
Access to the chapel is from the north side. Inside, there is a simple nave divided into three bays with V-braced trusses and two purlins on each side. The east truss now rests on a cantilever of the wallplate. The north wing has a similar construction but is in two bays. The flooring consists of 19th-century red quarry tiles, with a slight step at the entrance and at the altar.
The altar table is designed in the Jacobean style, featuring a central IHS and decorative vines and fish. The pulpit is also Jacobean, with arch-headed panels and a moulded frieze. There is a bench at the west, while all other seating is loose. An octagonal font dated 1663 has been brought here from the parish church.
Local climate
Jesus Chapel 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 60% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 38 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 72% of listed buildings. Of these, 21 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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