Former Church of St Nicholas is a Grade II listed building in the Vale of Glamorgan local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 May 1975. Former church.

Former Church of St Nicholas

WRENN ID
fossil-mortar-gorse
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Vale of Glamorgan
Constituency
Vale of Glamorgan MP: Kanishka Narayan (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 May 1975
Type
Former church
Address
Former Church of St Nicholas, Barry
OS grid reference
ST 104 669
Coordinates
51.3944, -3.28862
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The former Church of St Nicholas is a building designed in the Lancet style, constructed from grey stone with bathstone dressings and slate roofs that feature inserted lights. The structure includes a nave with a double belcote, a south porch, a lower chancel, and low stepped buttresses at the angles. On the west side, there is a stepped belcote with two bell arches, and above it, a lancet window is topped by a shallow corbelled arch that extends into the belcote. The south gabled porch has a pointed doorway and low clasping buttresses; to the west of the porch, there is a lancet window, a paired window to the right, and another lancet. The north wall of the nave features three lancets. The chancel, which steps down, has two lancets on the south wall, a triple lancet window on the east, a single lancet on the north wall, and a lean-to vestry.

The limestone is finely dressed and painted over. The building has been converted into a two-storey structure for use as a Scouting centre.

Local climate

Former Church of St Nicholas sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,090 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 87% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 17 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 83% of listed buildings. Of these, 6 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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