Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St. Asaph Diocesan Office
St. Asaph, Denbighshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in St. Asaph, Denbighshire, designated on 24 November 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 24 November 1987
- Community
- St. Asaph
- Unitary authority
- Denbighshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.25729, -3.44280
- Cadw reference
- 1462
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Near the top of the High Street at the NW corner of the Cathedral churchyard.
History
Built 1810 (although not shown on 1810 map); earlier origins to right.
Exterior
Tudor 2-storey structure with crenellated gable end to the front, coursed rubble with freestone dressings. Tudor hood moulds to 2-light 1st floor window with pointed heads and 4-centred entrance below with pointed door; plain stone tablet (?) originally with inscription. Slate roof with undulating ridge, brick and stone chimney stacks and stone bracketed eaves. Random coursed rubble left side with similar 1st floor window; ground floor entrance to Cathedral museum is below churchyard level and reached through a cutting with depressed arched roof. Similar crenellated parapet and hoodmoulds to rear gable end with Gothick small pane sash windows; metal barred Tudor windows below partly beneath ground level.
Brick gable-ended shorter parallel chapter room set back to right, mostly flemish bond. Timber frame sash windows, paired light to front, tripartite to rear. Brick chimney breast to right rear with very tall stack. Slate roof lean-to forward to the street with brick screen wall to front, ashlar dressings and Tudor doorway. Gothic railings adjoining the chapter room border the edge of the churchyard with yard to rear of the former Barber's shop below.
Interior
Rectangular chapter room retains cornice and panelled doors; groin vaulted Diocesan Board of Finance Office with central pier. some Gothick fittings retained including panelled bookcases; Victorian staircase.
Reason for designation
Group value with the Cathedral and other listed items in the High Street.
Nearby in the register
- Former Barber ShopCommercialunder 1 mi
- The Old RectoryDomesticunder 1 mi
- Translator's MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Barrow Crafts (including Antiques Shop)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.