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
14708
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
25/07/1994
Date of Amendment
25/07/1994
Name of Property
Church of St David
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Colwyn Bay
Town
Locality
Colwyn Bay
Easting
285019
Northing
378800
Street Side
W
Location
Behind the larger Church of Saint Paul, opposite the Police station.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built as the Welsh Church in a 1902-3, by Douglas and Fordham, architects, of Chester.
Exterior
Squared random limestone rubble with red sandstone dressings, and red plain tiled roof. A low building comprising nave with apsidal chancel at the west end. Perpendicaular style. Entrance in E facing gable in lean-to timber framed porch, with 3-light traceried window above. The main body of the church is articulated as 4 unequally sized bays by raking buttresses, with flat headed windows of 2 and 3 lights. A slate hung bell turret surmounts the roof at the east end, square in plan, raking up to an angled spirelet.
Interior
Single space divided into 5 bays by hammerbeam trusses, with simple chamfered wood arch and wrought iron scrolled rails made by a local blacksmith, David Jones, to apsidal sanctuary.
Reason for designation
Part of the an important group with the Church of Saint Paul, the Church Hall, and also with the Police Station opposite.
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