Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Andrew
Minera, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 22 April 1998
- Locality
- The Wern
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Minera
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04457, -3.07609
- Cadw reference
- 19725
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
Situated some 100m S from Wern Farm on the B5426 from Minera S to Aber-oer.
History
Late C19 mission church built for the district of Esclusham Above (New Brighton) in 1892, presumably to a standardised prefabricated design with corrugated-iron cladding to timber-frame.
Exterior
Church, corrugated iron cladding to timber frame. Roof cladding renewed in box-profile metal sheet. Four-window church with pointed Y-tracery timber windows, W spirelet and W porch. W spirelet has base splayed over the ridge, squat louvred stage for single bell and sheet-metal clad 4-sided spire splayed out at base. Porch is gabled with original crested ridge and has ledged door. W wall of church has pointed window each side of porch. E end has pointed window set high. At SE corner is attached a small vestry in matching materials with one pointed window and one pointed ledged door on S.
Reason for designation
Included as a particularly unaltered example of the corrugated-iron mission churches built in relatively large numbers in the period 1890-1914 but now becoming rare.
Nearby in the register
- Wern FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Nant Mill Wood Shaft MoundsShaft Moundsunder 1 mi
- Lime KilnCommercialunder 1 mi
- Wern CottagesDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.