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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
393
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
United Reformed Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Flintshire
Community
Mold
Town
Locality
Easting
323984
Northing
363912
Street Side
Location
At the corner of Tyddyn Street with Grosvenor Street overlooking the former railway station.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
1863 by W W Gwyther of London. A foil to his classical work of the same year at Bethesda, Mold; it was constructed as the English Congregational Church.
Exterior
Lancet style with advanced central lobby, flush, steeply pitched 3-gabled porch with cresting to right. Transept-like gables to side elevations, advanced organ chamber flanked by lean-to vestries. Spirelet removed from n corner.
Rubble with dressed facings, stepped buttresses. Canted slate roof with simple eaves cornice and raking gable parapets on kneelers. Crucufix finial over front, vent chimney over organ chamber.
Tripartite lancet to lobby with 3 stepped lancets over. Paired lancets to sides, taller with oculi over to "transepts". 3 stepped lancets to organ chamber.
Interior
Interior scissor trusses on plain corbels, with pierced trefoils to spandrels, apex boarded. Windows recessed under 4 centred arches internally. Deacon's seats removed.
Chapel contains old large scale model of the building.
Reason for designation
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