Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Church Hall
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Location
In a prominent position opposite the modern police station.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
1878-9 by John Douglas of Chester. Built as St John's Welsh Church but now sub-divided as a church hall. Arts and Crafts Gothic.
Exterior
Broad 5 bay aisle-less nave, 3 bay chancel. Low Ss transept with basement forms base of intended tower with projecting stair turret.
Random squared rubble with red Helsby dressings, steep red tile roofs with toothed ridge. Plain verges, exposed raftes at eaves. 2 iron crucifixes to ridge.
Raked buttresses, angled to chancel. Two centred arch with hoodmould to porch, quatrefoil side windows.
3 blocked stepped lancets to W end. Paired lancets to nave, narrower lancets to chancel, S transept and "tower". Oculus in S transept gable. 5 stepped lancets under single two centred arch with hoodmould to east end. String course steps up to sill.
Interior
Interior of stock brick with plain brick hoods to windows. Suspended ceiling inserted.
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