Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales) is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 May 1975. House.

Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales)

WRENN ID
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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff West MP: Mr Alex Barros-Curtis (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 May 1975
Type
House
Address
Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales), Canton, Pontcanna
OS grid reference
ST 168 769
Coordinates
51.48537, -3.19953
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Catherine, part of the Church of England in Wales, is constructed from thin courses of dark brown Pontypridd stone rubble, with Bath stone ashlar dressings and Welsh slate roofs. It features a five-bay nave, a chancel, and side aisles, all topped with separate gabled roofs. At the east end of the south aisle is the Lady Chapel. The church is designed in a plain Gothic style with Decorated tracery, and the three sections of the building are not easily distinguishable. The north-east end of the church has a chancel that projects forward beyond the vestry and Lady Chapel, which includes a 3-light chancel window and a 2-light window in the Lady Chapel, as well as 2-light windows in the chancel returns. The side aisle windows are also 2-light, separated by buttresses, while the south-west end of the nave features a 5-light window above paired central doorways with pointed heads. There is a gabled porch at the center of the south aisle and a 2-centred doorway at the center of the north aisle.

The interior was not available for inspection during the resurvey due to the living being vacant. However, the listing description from May 1975 notes that the walls are faced with yellow brick, accented with red and black lacing courses. The nave arcade is supported by slender cruciform columns of stone, and the roofs are made of timber. The Glamorgan volume of The Buildings of Wales confirms these details and mentions a variety of 20th-century glass, including some by Comper.

Local climate

Church of St Catherine (Church of England in Wales) sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,080 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 86% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 87% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 22 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 77% of listed buildings. Of these, 8 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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