Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church Hall
Mold, Flintshire, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Mold
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.16866, -3.14102
- Cadw reference
- 388
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
In a prominent position opposite the modern police station.
History
1878-9 by John Douglas of Chester. Built as St John's Welsh Church but now sub-divided as a church hall. Arts and Crafts Gothic.
Exterior
Broad 5 bay aisle-less nave, 3 bay chancel. Low Ss transept with basement forms base of intended tower with projecting stair turret.
Random squared rubble with red Helsby dressings, steep red tile roofs with toothed ridge. Plain verges, exposed raftes at eaves. 2 iron crucifixes to ridge.
Raked buttresses, angled to chancel. Two centred arch with hoodmould to porch, quatrefoil side windows.
3 blocked stepped lancets to W end. Paired lancets to nave, narrower lancets to chancel, S transept and "tower". Oculus in S transept gable. 5 stepped lancets under single two centred arch with hoodmould to east end. String course steps up to sill.
Interior
Interior of stock brick with plain brick hoods to windows. Suspended ceiling inserted.
Nearby in the register
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- Maes y VaynorDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8a King StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 8 King StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.