Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
St Mary Church
Flint, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 11 September 1995
- Community
- Flint
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.24859, -3.13528
- Cadw reference
- 16406
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1795 "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Cadw's description
Location
Between Church Street and Sydney Street, set at an angle to Church Street, oriented E-W.
History
Rebuilt by Ambrose Poynter, architect, 1846-48 on site of medieval church.
Exterior
Coursed brown stone, slate roofs. Eclectic Gothic style. Nave (chancel same height as nave) and aisles, NW corner tower, N transept (organ chamber), N porch. Tower has octagonal stone spire with lucarnes; 2-light Decorated style windows to bell stage; stepped buttresses, clock. To L of tower 4 bays, paired Caernarfon arched windows to clerestorey, broad single-light cusped windows to aisle; porch with modern doors; transept with oculus in gable, 3-light window to ground floor N and E; 3 lancets to E end. South elevation similar to N but lacks transept; instead, lower chapel at E end of aisle, and tall lancet. W end has 3 lancets with trefoil over.
Interior
Spacious interior with camberbeam roof to nave and to chancel; chancel same height as nave with no structural division; roof beams to chancel heavier (possibly later?). Broad arches to aisles have octagonal shafts. Gallery to W end with painted panel of Royal arms (Queen Victoria). Monuments to members of the Muspratt family (who set up alkali works at town); to S of chancel Julia Muspratt (died 1857) by Spence; to N of chancel James and Richard Muspratt (died 1886, and 1885) by E J Physick.
Reason for designation
Included as example of early Victorian Gothic on site of historic parish church.
Nearby in the register
- 34Domesticunder 1 mi
- South African War MemorialCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- War Memorial (CENOTAPH)Commemorativeunder 1 mi
- Palace Social Club (former Plaza Cinema)Recreationalunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.