Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
5808
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
16/03/1976
Date of Amendment
06/06/2001
Name of Property
Roman Catholic Church of Our Lady Star of the Sea
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Conwy
Community
Llandudno
Town
Locality
Llandudno
Easting
278054
Northing
382216
Street Side
SE
Location
On corner with St Mary's Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Circa 1891 to 1893; designed by E Kirby.
Exterior
Gothic church faced with yellow stone with red sandstone ashlar dressings. Slate roof. Chancel with polygonal apse; 2-light windows, but larger 3-light end window set in gable. Nave of five bays, lean-to aisles, polygonal baptistry at south-west end of southern side aisle and porch at south-west end of northern side aisle. Clerestorey windows of three trefoil-headed lights in square-headed openings; aisle windows of two trefoil headed lights with quatrefoils in three-centred openings with dripstones. At south-west end of northern side aisle there is a high gabled porch with a statue of Our Lady of the Sea in canopied and crocketed niche in upper part of front wall of porch; porch entrance with pointed moulded arch. Large south-west end window of four-lights above south-western nave entrance with moulded pointed arch.
Interior
Inside, nave arches with circular columns, timber roof to nave and ribbed chancel roof; reredos with statues and reliefs in canopied niches; some stained glass.
Reason for designation
Well-designed C19 Roman Catholic church. Group value with adjacent listed buildings.
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