Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings) is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 17 July 1996. Church.

Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings)

WRENN ID
small-chapel-crow
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Wrexham MP: Andrew Ranger (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
17 July 1996
Type
Church
Address
Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings), Holt
OS grid reference
SJ 409 537
Coordinates
53.07786, -2.88302
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Presbyterian Church, built in the Gothic Revival style, features bar tracery and is constructed from sandstone blocks of irregular sizes, laid in courses, topped with a slate roof. The gable end facing the street includes a central gabled entrance porch with an ordered stone door surround adorned with carved foliated capitals and a wooden door. To the left, there is a stone belfry supported by decorated stone buttresses. The windows throughout the church are designed in the Early English, 'First Pointed' style, showcasing quatrefoil and cinquefoil details. At the rear, there is an adjoining schoolroom made of sandstone blocks with simple lancet windows, along with a late 20th-century single-storey flat-roofed extension.

Inside, the church retains a fairly complete contemporary scheme. Arch-braced roof timbers rise from painted stone corbels, and there is a decorative timber frieze. Motifs of 4 and 5 pointed star shapes are consistently featured, appearing in the glass of the tracery, the pierced designs in the roof joinery, and the incised shapes on the pew ends. Paired windows are separated by stone shafts with foliated capitals. At the liturgical west end, there is a pitch pine lobby with blind cusped arcading, while at the liturgical east end, a central pulpit of similar character is flanked by steps with arcaded balustrading. Doors on each side lead to the schoolroom. The windows contain coloured and painted glass in the tracery, with plain glass otherwise and coloured glass margins. The pews are made of pitch pine and have painted numbers. On the liturgical east wall, there are three later 19th-century monuments in Neoclassical style commemorating former ministers and elders of the church, two of which were created by Mossford of Overton. The schoolroom features exposed timbers in the roof.

Local climate

Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings) receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 61% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 85% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 32 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 57% of listed buildings. Of these, 16 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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