16173

 

II  

Designated  

15/04/1994  

20/07/2000  

Chapel at the North Wales Hospital  

 

Denbighshire  

Denbigh  

 

Noth Wales Hospital  

304922  

365062  

SW  

Located on a rise to the W of the hospital complex.  

Health and Welfare  

 

Asylum chapel, designed by Lloyd Williams and Underwood, architects of Denbigh and constructed 1861-2.  

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.  

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.  

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.