Christ Church is a Grade II listed building in the Flintshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 January 2002. Church.
Christ Church
- WRENN ID
- forbidden-corridor-larch
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Flintshire
- Constituency
- Clwyd East MP: Becky Gittins (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 January 2002
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Christ Church, Rhes-Y-Cae, Holywell, Halkyn
- OS grid reference
- SJ 186 709
- Coordinates
- 53.22903, -3.21989
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Christ Church is a simple Gothic style church built with a nave and chancel under a single roof, constructed of coursed rubble and topped with a slate roof behind coped gables. At the west end, there is a gabled bellcote that houses a single bell in an arched opening. The church features low angle buttresses made of dressed stone, and all openings have plain chamfers. The south doorway, which is set back from the west end of the nave, has double doors with scrolled strap hinges. To the left of the doorway is a single lancet, with four additional lancets to the right. Attached to the south side of the chancel is a lower gabled vestry that includes a brick end stack. The vestry's doorway in the west wall has a shouldered lintel and a door with strap hinges, and there is a single lancet in its south wall.
On the east wall of the chancel, there are three stepped lancets and a sill band. The north side of the nave and chancel features eight lancets, while the west wall has lancets with sill bands flanking a central buttress.
Inside, the nave boasts an 8-bay king-post roof with diagonal struts and a cornice that includes a painted inscription in Welsh. Below the westernmost truss, there is a panelled screen. A late 19th-century chancel screen has seven lights with panelling below open cusped lights. The chancel is adorned with glazed encaustic tiles and a Gothic reredos featuring blind arches.
The church also contains an octagonal freestone font that stands on a square base, and the polygonal panelled pulpit is integrated with the chancel screen. The open arcaded wooden communion rail, which is an original feature of the church, has pierced spandrels. The pews and choir stalls are designed with simple mouldings. The east window features a figure of Christ as the Good Shepherd, created by Ward & Hughes of London and dated 1884.
Local climate
Christ Church receives an average of 930 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 70% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 79% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 30 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 65% 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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