Detached Belfry Tower at the Church of St Sadwrn is a Grade II* listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 October 1950. Belfry tower.
Detached Belfry Tower at the Church of St Sadwrn
- WRENN ID
- idle-pediment-frost
- Grade
- II*
- Local Planning Authority
- Denbighshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 24 October 1950
- Type
- Belfry tower
- Address
- Detached Belfry Tower at the Church of St Sadwrn, Henllan
- OS grid reference
- SJ 022 681
- Coordinates
- 53.20179, -3.46459
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The detached belfry tower at the Church of St Sadwrn is a Grade II* listed building. This square, four-stage tower is constructed of limestone with sandstone dressings and features a shallow-pitched leaded roof. It has a battered plinth and is situated on a tall rock outcrop.
The eastern face of the tower includes a pointed-arched primary entrance to the raised first stage, which has heavily-weathered sandstone jambs and counter-changed voussoirs made of limestone and sandstone. There is an old, possibly original, boarded door that is recessed and has an upper grille. A flight of nine parapetted stone steps leads up to the entrance, ascending from right to left.
The third stage, which houses the bell, has paired pointed-arched lights on each face, complemented by horizontally-slatted vents. The tower is topped with a crenellated parapet that features plain sandstone gargoyles at the front angles (southeast and northeast), and there is a 20th-century flagpole located at the southwest corner.
Inside, the tower has a plain interior across three stages below the roof level, with exposed rubble walls and renewed floor boarding supported by stopped-chamfered lateral beams. Access to the upper levels is provided by a ladder-stair.
Local climate
Detached Belfry Tower at the Church of St Sadwrn sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 990 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 79% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 50% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 28 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 69% 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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