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
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 31 July 1997
- Type
- Church
- Source
- Cadw listing
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.
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