Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Former Chapel at Lluesty Hospital
Holywell, Flintshire, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Holywell, Flintshire, designated on 19 August 1991.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Health and Welfare
- Date of designation
- 19 August 1991
- Community
- Holywell
- Unitary authority
- Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.26626, -3.21685
- Cadw reference
- 455
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 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)
- 1830 · V.3:11-15:XV. Britisches Reich. A. Kon: England. b. Frstenthum Wales: Shire: 37-40 (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Immediately to N of the main hospital building with E gable end facing the road.
History
Built 1883-4 as the hospital chapel by John Douglas, architect of Chester.
Modern conversion to medical usage.
Exterior
Early English Gothic. Rubble masonry with red sandstone dressings; slate roof, overhanging eaves and octagonal shingled fleche; later brick chimney stacks. Stepped 3-light end windows; to W, with relieving arch and set over the main entrance which has label and boarded doors; to E, with giant arch label, flanking buttresses and small outer lancets. Shallow pointed arch windows to 5-bay sides with raking buttresses.
Interior
Altered interior.
Reason for designation
Group value with Lluesty Hospital.
Nearby in the register
- Lluesty HospitalHealth and Welfareunder 1 mi
- 21Domesticunder 1 mi
- 9Domesticunder 1 mi
- Territorial Army Drill HallDefenceunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.