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
16910
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
08/12/1995
Date of Amendment
08/12/1995
Name of Property
Church of St Mary
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Bagillt
Town
Locality
Easting
322261
Northing
375086
Street Side
S
Location
In large churchyard above High Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Exterior
Built 1837-38 by John Welch, architect.
Exterior: Yellow sandstone, coursed, slate roofs. Cruciform plan, with lancets, gabled buttresses and low pitched roofs. West tower with parapet of stepped battlements, corbelled out; 2 windows to each side at bell stage, lozenge to W, shallow buttresses, blind windows to sides, to W, round-headed doorway with shallow hood. Three bays to nave (gabled buttresses) doorway to N has round head, shallow hood. Transepts and E end have pairs of buttresses carried up as octagonal pinnacles; 3 lancets between buttresses (almond-shaped window above), single lancets to ends (and to returns); E end similar to transept ends but has low polygonal vestry with buttresses rising above parapet.
Interior: Spacious interior has open roof to aisleless nave (gallery to W end on octagonal columns) and broad crossing arches with boarded roof.
Listed as good example of earlier C19 Gothic.
References: E Hubbard, Clwyd, (Buildings of Wales Series), 1986, pp 319.
Interior
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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