Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
14478
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/03/1994
Date of Amendment
15/03/1994
Name of Property
Knolton Mission Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Overton
Town
Locality
Knolton Bryn
Easting
337271
Northing
339359
Street Side
Location
On the S side of the lane leading to Knolton Bryn, c300m from the A528.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Mission church, built c1890 to serve a scattered, mainly agricultural community to the S of the village centre, and located on the edge of a small common.
Exterior
Red pained corrugated iron throughout, including gabled roof; brick plinth. Single storeyed, 3-bay plan, with small gabled porch projecting from NW gable, balanced by gabled vestry to SE. Porch has plain side doorway with plank door, and narrow window beneath gable, with small upper panes. Vestry has similar window in gable, and 4-panelled door in side elevation to SW. Main body of church has 3 timber windows to either side, set in wide frames and divided by narrow mullions and high set transoms, with small upper panes. Small bellcote over NW gable, with raking plinth to openwork foiled timber frame carrying canted spirelet clad in tine sheet. Plain bargeboards with curved end-stops to all gables. The building is partially enclosed to SW and NW sides by a painted wood paling fence.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a well-preserved and well-detailed example of a corrugated iron mission church, of a type which is becoming scarce.
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