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
14299
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
14/02/1994
Date of Amendment
14/02/1994
Name of Property
Church of the Holy Trinity
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Rhyl
Town
Locality
Easting
300969
Northing
381479
Street Side
SE
Location
Adjacent to the Church of Saint Thomas, facing down Church Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Built in 1835 as a chapel of ease to Saint Mary’s Church, Rhuddlan, to designs of Thomas Jones, architect. It became a parish church when Rhyl was designated as a separate parish in 1844. As Rhyl rapidly developed as a resort, it was necessary first to extend the existing church - the transepts were extended to their present notably long form in 1850 and 1852 - and then to supplement it by the construction of a new church devoted to English services - the adjacent church of Saint Thomas was built 1860-9. The Church of the Holy Trinity remained the parish church, and is still used principally for Welsh services.
Exterior
Roughly squared random rubble with slate roofs. Aisle-less nave nominated by long transepts; short chancel. Perpendicular style. West door in plain chamfered shallow projecting panel, with 4-centred arched doorway. Four-light window and trefoil over the doorway, and bellcote on gable above. Three-light windows to nave and to transepts, with porch in N transept, a chamfered 4-centred arched doorway. Five-light E window to chancel extended to the S in 1869 by a narrow vestry addition under a continuation of the main roof, and to the east in 1891. Three light windows to vestry and chancel N wall. Many of the windows, especially in the original parts of the building (nave, chancel and first bays of transepts) have cast-iron latticed glazing in lieu of leading.
Interior
Three-bay nave, with braced king-post roof with rafters. Similar roofs over transepts, which have both been subdivided by timber screens to form separate rooms at N and S ends. Encaustic tiled floor to chancel, plain panelled reredos of 1891 and pictorial stained glass by Ward and Hughes, of 1879 and 1881.
Reason for designation
A well-detailed example of neo-Perpendicular church design, it has particular historical significance in the context of Rhyl’s development as a resort, reflecting both in its extension and in its justaposition with the later church of Saint Thomas, the rapid expansion of the town.
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