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
16173
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/04/1994
Date of Amendment
20/07/2000
Name of Property
Chapel at the North Wales Hospital
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Denbigh
Town
Locality
Noth Wales Hospital
Easting
304922
Northing
365062
Street Side
SW
Location
Located on a rise to the W of the hospital complex.
Description
Broad Class
Health and Welfare
Period
History
Asylum chapel, designed by Lloyd Williams and Underwood, architects of Denbigh and constructed 1861-2.
Exterior
Asylum chapel in restrained Victorian Gothic style. Of random grey-brown rubble with freestone dressings, slate roofs. Aisleless nave with transepts and polygonal E end with gabled windows, and square projecting sanctuary. Octagonal wooden bellcote at the crossing with slated fleche having gablets and wrought-iron finial. The West end has a 4-light window with geometrical tracery. Nave windows have 2-light geometrical tracery. The N and S porches have doors with ornate hinges; four cusped-light windows to W. Transepts with stepped buttresses and 3-light window with geometrical tracery. The E end has 3-light windows with intersecting tracery, gables above. To the E of these are 2-light windows with cinquefoils, gables above. The projecting sanctuary has a 3-light E window with geometrical tracery; stepped buttresses. (The E end windows containing stained glass were all boarded internally and externally at the time of inspection.
Interior
Simple interior with open scissor roof with iron tie-bars; wooden panelled screen to E end. E window with stained glass by James Ballantine 1861. Stained glass to all E end windows except SE.
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a fine example of an 1860s asylum chapel.
Group value with other listed items at the North Wales Hospital.
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