Chapel at the North Wales Hospital, Denbigh, Denbighshire

Coordinates

Latitude: 53.1741 / 53°10'26"N

Longitude: -3.4239 / 3°25'26"W

OS Eastings: 304922

OS Northings: 365062

OS Grid: SJ049650

Mapcode National: GBR 6M.42SB

Mapcode Global: WH771.CGTZ

Plus Code: 9C5R5HFG+MC

Entry Name: Chapel at the North Wales Hospital

Listing Date: 15 April 1994

Last Amended: 20 July 2000

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 16173

Building Class: Health and Welfare

Also known as: Chapel at the North Wales Hospital

ID on this website: 300016173

Location: Located on a rise to the W of the hospital complex.

County: Denbighshire

Community: Denbigh (Dinbych)

Community: Denbigh

Locality: Noth Wales Hospital

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

Asylum chapel, designed by Lloyd Williams and Underwood, architects of Denbigh and constructed 1861-2.

Exterior

Asylum chapel in restrained Victorian Gothic style. Of random grey-brown rubble with freestone dressings, slate roofs. Aisleless nave with transepts and polygonal E end with gabled windows, and square projecting sanctuary. Octagonal wooden bellcote at the crossing with slated fleche having gablets and wrought-iron finial. The West end has a 4-light window with geometrical tracery. Nave windows have 2-light geometrical tracery. The N and S porches have doors with ornate hinges; four cusped-light windows to W. Transepts with stepped buttresses and 3-light window with geometrical tracery. The E end has 3-light windows with intersecting tracery, gables above. To the E of these are 2-light windows with cinquefoils, gables above. The projecting sanctuary has a 3-light E window with geometrical tracery; stepped buttresses. (The E end windows containing stained glass were all boarded internally and externally at the time of inspection.

Interior

Simple interior with open scissor roof with iron tie-bars; wooden panelled screen to E end. E window with stained glass by James Ballantine 1861. Stained glass to all E end windows except SE.

Reasons for Listing

Listed for its special interest as a fine example of an 1860s asylum chapel.

Group value with other listed items at the North Wales Hospital.

External Links

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Other nearby listed buildings

II 'The Bungalow' (Former Isolation Ward) at the North Wales Hospital, inc associated Mortuary Block
On a sloping site between the main hospital complex and the chapel; facing roughly E.
II Erddig Ward at the North Wales Hospital
On an elevated site to the W of the main hospital complex, a short distance to the NW of the chapel.
II Nurses Home at the North Wales Hospital
Located some 200m NW of the main hospital complex.
II* North Wales Hospital: Primary Range, including adjoining walled 'Airing Courts' to NW and SE
Located within its own parkland setting approximately 1km S of Denbigh set back to the W of the lane.
II Academic Unit and Gwynfryn Wards at the North Wales Hospital
On an elevated site, within the grounds of the former house Gwynfryn, on the other side of the lane to the main hospital complex.
II Tal-y-Fan Ward at the North Wales Hospital
On an elevated site, within the grounds of the former house Gwynfryn, on the other side of the lane to the main hospital complex.
II Lodge and Gatepiers at the Main Entrance to the North Wales Hospital
Immediately to the NW of the hospital's main entrance.
II Galch Hill
Located on an elevated site overlooking Denbigh approximately 750m to the E; accessed via a drive running S from the road and set back behind a low rubble-walled forecourt.

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Chapel at the North Wales Hospital

A Grade II Listed Building in Denbigh, Denbighshire