Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
United Reformed Church
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
- 53.16688, -3.13853
- Cadw reference
- 393
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
At the corner of Tyddyn Street with Grosvenor Street overlooking the former railway station.
History
1863 by W W Gwyther of London. A foil to his classical work of the same year at Bethesda, Mold; it was constructed as the English Congregational Church.
Exterior
Lancet style with advanced central lobby, flush, steeply pitched 3-gabled porch with cresting to right. Transept-like gables to side elevations, advanced organ chamber flanked by lean-to vestries. Spirelet removed from n corner.
Rubble with dressed facings, stepped buttresses. Canted slate roof with simple eaves cornice and raking gable parapets on kneelers. Crucufix finial over front, vent chimney over organ chamber.
Tripartite lancet to lobby with 3 stepped lancets over. Paired lancets to sides, taller with oculi over to "transepts". 3 stepped lancets to organ chamber.
Interior
Interior scissor trusses on plain corbels, with pierced trefoils to spandrels, apex boarded. Windows recessed under 4 centred arches internally. Deacon's seats removed.
Chapel contains old large scale model of the building.
Nearby in the register
- Old County HallCivilunder 1 mi
- New Savoy Restaurant (formerly 1-7 Prince's Row to the rear of Savoy Resturant)Commercialunder 1 mi
- Former SmithyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Jones & SonCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.