Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of Saint Deiniol
Criccieth, Gwynedd, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 August 1949
- Town
- Criccieth
- Community
- Criccieth
- Unitary authority
- Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.92018, -4.23107
- Cadw reference
- 4610
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
Set back from the main A497 road in a disused churchyard towards the centre of the town at Y Maes, and close to the junction with Lon Ednyfed.
History
Built 1884-7 as a chapel of ease to the Parish Church of Saint Catherine, to serve as an English Church for the growing resort. Designed by Douglas and Fordham, architects, of Chester, but never finished. The church closed for worship in 1988, and converted into flats in 1994.
Exterior
Snecked dark rubble facings with red sandstone dressings including bands, slate roofs with red tiled cresting. Aisled nave with clerestory, S porch and N baptistery, short chancel, S transept balanced by N organ chamber and vestry. Western tower never built. Geometric Gothic style. Toothed masonry and blocked arch to the never-built W tower in W wall, with flanking buttresses; gabled bellcote on apex of gable above. Polygonal baptistery to NW. Plate traceried 2-light windows to clerestory, and paired wide lancet windows to low aisles, which are clasped between ramped buttresses. Gabled buttressed S porch. Splayed buttresses to transept, with ramped aprons to windows. Rich geometric traceried 7-light E window to chancel, and stepped lancet windows to N and S.
Interior
The original interior had a wide 6-bay nave with boarded wagon roof supported by false hammer-beam trusses and wind braces. Arcade of continuous low pointed arches (without capitals) to corridor aisles, and recessed clerestory windows above. High chancel arch sprung form corbels, and similar arches to either side of chancel. Boarded and ribbed chancel ceiling with arched braced trusses.
Nearby in the register
- Nant y FelinDomesticunder 1 mi
- Memorial HallCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- Capel y TraethReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- PenpaledDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.