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United Reformed Church

Mold, Flintshire, Wales

A Grade II listed building in Mold, Flintshire, designated on 30 March 1987.

Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913) covering the location of United Reformed Church, Mold, Flintshire, with a pin at the register's coordinates
Ordnance Survey six-inch map, 2nd edition (1888–1913), covering this location. Courtesy of the National Library of Scotland. The pin is ours, placed from the register's coordinates.

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.

David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1795 map "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).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
  • 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1898 · 108 Flint (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
  • 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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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

Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

Designated Historic Asset GIS Data, The Welsh Historic Environment Service (Cadw), 2026-09-07, licensed under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/ Cadw, the Welsh Historic Environment Service · Open Government Licence v3.0
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