Clifton Church is a Grade II listed building in the Cardiff local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 31 July 1997. Church.

Clifton Church

WRENN ID
over-spire-birch
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cardiff
Constituency
Cardiff East MP: Jo Stevens (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
31 July 1997
Type
Church
Address
Clifton Church, Adamsdown
OS grid reference
ST 195 770
Coordinates
51.48707, -3.15962
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Clifton Church is a Gothic chapel constructed from Pennant stone with bathstone dressings and slate roofs. The northern front features a gabled design with a five-light window showcasing geometrical tracery and bathstone banding. The doorway is adorned with a geometrical overlight and is flanked by paired lancet windows. To the west, there is a convex stair turret with lancets at two levels. To the east, a tall and richly decorated tiered octagonal tower rises, topped with a stone spire. The bell stage of the tower has louvred cusped windows with quatrefoil tracery, while below this, stepped forward trefoil windows are set under arches with free-standing shafts, all surmounted by steep gables. The tower's base features a transitional stage from a square base, with corners that rise as polygonal buttresses. This octagonal stage includes cusped lancets, and the base has cusped lancets and a doorway to the east.

The sides of the chapel are marked by shallow stepped buttresses that separate four tall two-light windows with geometrical tracery. At the rear, the schoolroom range appears as transepts. On the eastern side, facing Clifton Street, there are three stepped buttresses, a doorway, and Gothic windows at two levels. The western side features a quatrefoil window at the apex, with two two-light windows on the upper floor and two three-light windows on the ground floor.

At the time of inspection, the church was undergoing conversion into an arts centre.

Local climate

Clifton Church 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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