14478

 

II  

Designated  

15/03/1994  

15/03/1994  

Knolton Mission Church  

 

Wrexham  

Overton  

 

Knolton Bryn  

337271  

339359  

 

On the S side of the lane leading to Knolton Bryn, c300m from the A528.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

Mission church, built c1890 to serve a scattered, mainly agricultural community to the S of the village centre, and located on the edge of a small common.  

Red pained corrugated iron throughout, including gabled roof; brick plinth. Single storeyed, 3-bay plan, with small gabled porch projecting from NW gable, balanced by gabled vestry to SE. Porch has plain side doorway with plank door, and narrow window beneath gable, with small upper panes. Vestry has similar window in gable, and 4-panelled door in side elevation to SW. Main body of church has 3 timber windows to either side, set in wide frames and divided by narrow mullions and high set transoms, with small upper panes. Small bellcote over NW gable, with raking plinth to openwork foiled timber frame carrying canted spirelet clad in tine sheet. Plain bargeboards with curved end-stops to all gables. The building is partially enclosed to SW and NW sides by a painted wood paling fence.  

 

Included as a well-preserved and well-detailed example of a corrugated iron mission church, of a type which is becoming scarce.