Welsh Presbyterian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 February 1994. Church.

Welsh Presbyterian Church

WRENN ID
roaming-loft-rye
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Constituency
Clwyd North MP: Gill German (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 February 1994
Type
Church
Address
Welsh Presbyterian Church, Rhyl
OS grid reference
SJ 010 814
Coordinates
53.32031, -3.48761
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Welsh Presbyterian Church is a building made of brown brick, some of which is stamped with "W Hancock," featuring freestone dressings and a slate roof. The entrance front on Clwyd Street is wide and gabled, divided into three bays by pinnacled buttresses. In the center, there is a three-bay recessed arcaded porch that serves as a lobby beneath an internal gallery, with doors leading into the chapel on the north and south walls. Above the porch are triple windows with plate tracery and pronounced hood moulds. The outer bays have similar foiled lancet windows, and there are small quatrefoil windows flanking the porch. The north and south elevations each have five bays, separated by pilaster buttresses. The lower storey features two-light plain chamfered mullioned windows, with similar paired windows above set in blind traceried arches. The eaves are topped with a plain parapet.

An additional school room, designed in the same style, has been added as a cross gable to the east. There is a two-storey entrance block set back to the east, which includes a chamfered arched doorway with pierced spandrels, two shouldered mullioned windows on the ground floor of the cross gable, plate traceried windows above, and a small rose window at the apex.

Inside, the coved ceiling is divided into panels by moulded cross-beams supported by ornate brackets, with painted decorations in the angles of the panels. The interior fittings date from the time of the church's extension with the addition of the schoolroom. Open pews are arranged to face a large pulpit within a contemporary set fawr enclosure that includes a deacons’ seat. The horseshoe gallery is supported by cast-iron columns and brackets, featuring raked seating. The gallery's parapet is paneled and continues across the east wall of the set fawr and the organ loft above, showcasing the wood's natural knotting for decorative effect, divided by pilasters and topped with a scalloped cornice. The school rooms form a cross-wing of the chapel to the east, along with the deacon’s room. The upper school room spans the entire width of the building, consisting of five bays with arched braced trusses adorned with scalloped moulding, and ornate open-work plaster ceiling roses that likely serve as ventilators.

Local climate

Welsh Presbyterian Church 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 59% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 20 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 79% 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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