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
18754
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
11/08/1997
Date of Amendment
11/08/1997
Name of Property
Emmanuel Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Buckley
Town
Locality
Bistre
Easting
327351
Northing
363964
Street Side
S
Location
Situated in a churchyard off the S side of Mold Road in Bistre.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
A grant of £250 was paid towards the construction of the church in 1839 by the Incorporated Society for the Building of Churches. It was designed by John Lloyd and opened in 1842. In 1881 W H Spaull remodelled the building; the W gallery was removed and the chancel was added. A simple vestry was built at the SE end in 1935.
Exterior
Gothic Revival style with Early English windows. Coursed dressed stone, slate roof, stone plinth. Aisleless with W tower and narrower shallow chancel. The squat castellated tower has arched louvred bell-openings. There is a triple lancet window on the W face and a gabled central porch flanked by narrow lancets. The nave has simple lancet windows alternating with stepped buttresses. The E elevation has blocked lancet windows flanking a shallow chancel with a triple lancet window. On the N side nave and chancel have stepped angle buttresses at the corners, on the S side a flat-roofed vestry is attached.
Interior
The entrance leads to a vestibule with steps up to the tower on the N side. C20 doors lead to the body of the church which has an exposed timber roof, steps up to the chancel with an open arcaded pitch-pine screen, and steps up to the sanctuary. The E window is enriched with shafts with moulded caps. On the N side of the chancel is an organ, and in front of this a circular stone pulpit with cusped quatrefoil decoration and stone steps. At the SW end is a simple octagonal font with a cover surmounted by elaborate brass cresting. There are pitch-pine pews with simple floral decoration, some have brass plates with numbers. Stained glass includes windows by Ballantine, 1881; Jones & Willis 1912; A E Child, 1932 and T M Cox, 1950s.
Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of an early Victorian church which retains interior features of quality and interest.
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