Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 5 December 1997. Church.

Christ Church

WRENN ID
fading-chalk-khaki
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Flintshire
Constituency
Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
5 December 1997
Type
Church
Address
Christ Church, Pontblyddyn, Leeswood and Pontblyddyn
OS grid reference
SJ 272 611
Coordinates
53.14248, -3.08916
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Christ Church is an aisleless rectangular church built in a plain early Gothic Revival style, featuring a stepped down and narrower chancel. The liturgical north side is faced with dressed stone and has a slate roof. The church has an unusually narrow west tower topped with a pyramid spire. The nave includes four simple two-light windows with slender stone Y-tracery and dressed stone surrounds. The tower has several simple lancet windows, and the bell-cote features a three-light mullioned opening on each face.

The chancel, added between 1865 and 1866, is stepped down from the nave and is narrower, constructed in a similar style with dressed stone, lancet windows, and angle buttresses. The east window is more elaborate, showcasing geometric tracery and a decorative hoodmould. The liturgical south side, which faces away from the road, is made of stone rubble and has three nave windows, each with different tracery; one is an original Y-traceried window while the others are later 19th-century windows with Decorated tracery. Disturbances in the masonry indicate that these later windows were inserted.

Inside, the nave has a central aisle with late 19th-century pews. There is an early west end gallery supported by two cast-iron columns painted white, with a boarded gallery front also painted white. The coved common rafter roof likely dates from the 1865-6 alterations. The later chancel, narrower than the nave, has a tiled floor. The church features stained glass, including windows by William Wailes, and the chancel contains a memorial window for William Wynn Eyton, dated June 6th, 1857, which notes that he served at Trafalgar with Nelson at the age of 11.

Local climate

Christ Church receives an average of 900 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 67% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 19 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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