Caerwys Welsh Presbyterian Church, including forecourt wall and gates is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 2002. Church. 1 related planning application.
Caerwys Welsh Presbyterian Church, including forecourt wall and gates
- WRENN ID
- drifting-arch-grain
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 19 July 2002
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Caerwys Welsh Presbyterian Church, including forecourt wall and gates, CH7 5BR
- OS grid reference
- SJ 130 729
- Coordinates
- 53.24611, -3.30449
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Caerwys Welsh Presbyterian Church is an early 19th-century chapel built in a simple Gothic style. The front of the chapel is constructed of snecked stone with dressed-stone voussoirs framing round-headed openings, and is topped by a slate roof with a conical ridge ventilator. It features two large windows containing small-pane, hornless sashes and tracery lights with intersecting Gothic glazing bars. The outer doorways have similar overlights and boarded doors. A central round-headed tablet between the windows records the chapel's founding and subsequent rebuilding. The side and rear walls are of rubble stone with larger quoins. Side walls each have a single window similar to the front, offset toward the rear, while the rear elevation has two similar windows.
A low, integral vestry is set back on the left side of the front, featuring a brick stack at one end and a segmental-headed, small-pane, hornless sash window in both front and rear walls. To the right of the main chapel’s front is a short link leading to a gabled school room with pebble-dashed walls and a slate roof. The link contains a vestibule and double-panelled doors. The school room's three windows have horned sashes under round heads with intersecting Gothic glazing bars; the central window is larger, and the Gothic glazing bars form an overlight. The right side wall of the school room has two horned sash windows beneath the eaves, and behind this is a lower kitchen projection with an end stack, a horned sash window, and a boarded door to its left.
A dwarf forecourt wall of rock-faced stone, topped with cast iron railings, stands in front of the chapel. It features central freestone piers with pyramidal caps and double iron gates. A rubble-stone return wall is at the left end of the forecourt, and the wall is attached to a rubble-stone boundary wall on the right.
Inside the chapel, small vestibules have panelled doors and diaper floor tiles. The main chapel has a panelled ceiling and a continuous moulded impost band. The set fawr (choir area) has panelled backing below an open balustrade, and the splayed pulpit has matching detail. Behind the pulpit is a wood-panelled reredos, and the pews have moulded ends. The school room has a single collar-beam truss.
Local climate
Caerwys Welsh Presbyterian Church, including forecourt wall and gates receives an average of 940 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 72% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 67% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 29 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 68% 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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- Sale history — 3 transactions since 2001
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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