Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Baptist Chapel (including forecourt walls, gates and railings)
Holt, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holt, Wrexham, designated on 17 July 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 17 July 1996
- Locality
- Holt
- Community
- Holt
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.07823, -2.88312
- Cadw reference
- 16959
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)
- 1861 · 73. Market Drayton. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 122 Nantwich (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Situated on the E side of Chapel Street.
History
Former Baptist Chapel of 1827, now used as a furniture store house.
Exterior
Simple classical 2 storey, red brick in Flemish bond, slate roof. Centrally placed doorway with open pedimented hood. Moulded wooden architrave surround with console details. 2 symmetrically placed windows with stone lintels. Stone string course. 3 windows to first floor all with stone lintels. Under apex of gable is a stone plaque with heavily eroded inscription and date 1827. Later brick walls with sandstone coping blocks surmounted by decorative railings.
Interior
Interior was not accessible at the time of re-survey (March 1996).
Reason for designation
Listed as a relatively early example of a Baptist Chapel with good architectural detailing.
Nearby in the register
- Presbyterian Church (including forecourt walls and railings)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 1 Holt Hall (including the Peking Garden)Domesticunder 1 mi
- 2 Holt Hall (including the Peking Garden)Domesticunder 1 mi
- Puddleducks (including forecourt walls and railings)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.