Former Bier-House at St Mary's Church is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 12 December 1994. Bier-house.
Former Bier-House at St Mary's Church
- WRENN ID
- winter-bastion-honey
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 12 December 1994
- Type
- Bier-house
- Address
- Former Bier-House at St Mary's Church, Nercwys
- OS grid reference
- SJ 234 603
- Coordinates
- 53.13509, -3.14503
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The former bier-house at St Mary's Church is a 19th-century structure that is single storey and features a modern mono-pitch corrugated iron roof. The building is constructed of rubble with a brick entrance face on the west side. Above a modern boarded door, there is a large dressed stone lintel that has fielded panel decoration, which has been re-used. The north side of the bier-house has two blocked ventilation slits.
Adjacent to the bier-house are the south churchyard gates, which were built during the restoration by George Gilbert Scott between 1882 and 1884. These gates feature plain sandstone gate-piers topped with conical caps, and iron gates that have simple fleurs-de-lis and arrow decorations. Next to the gates, there is a rubble retaining wall that supports the churchyard, which follows the road around to the northwest. Here, there is a small pedestrian gate with plain gate-piers that match the style of the main gates. The wall continues along the west and southwest sides of the church, enclosing the old churchyard in a rough L shape, and it terminates at the junction with the rear wall of the northern agricultural range of Plas yn Llan. The later cemetery walls to the west are not included in this description.
Local climate
Former Bier-House at St Mary's 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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