St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden, is in the village of

Hawarden Hawarden (; cy, Penarlâg) is a village, community and electoral ward in Flintshire, Wales. It is part of the Deeside conurbation on the Wales-England border and is home to Hawarden Castle. In the 2011 census the ward of the same name had ...

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, Wales. It is the

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of the rectorial benefice of Hawarden in the deanery of Hawarden, the archdeaconry of Wrexham, and the

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. The church has associations with W. E. Gladstone and his family, and is designated by Cadw as a Grade II*

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History

The parish dates back at least 1,000 years and the list of rectors starts in 1180. The church was restored by James Harrison in about 1855–56. However it was badly damaged on 29 October 1857 by a fire which had been started deliberately. Some of the stained glass and woodwork at the east end were not damaged by the fire and the church had been restored by

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by the end of 1859. In 1896 a porch was added, designed by the Chester firm of architects, Douglas & Fordham. The same firm, then known as Douglas & Minshull designed the Gladstone Memorial Chapel at the east end of the north aisle, built between 1901 and 1903 and in 1908–09 the vestries which were added at the northeast of the church.

Architecture

Exterior

The plan of the church consists of a nave with north and south aisles, a chancel, a south porch, another porch to the chancel aisle, and northeast vestries. At the east end of the north aisle is the Gladstone Memorial Chapel, which has a three-sided

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, and at the east end of the south aisle is the Whitley Chapel. The tower is central, over the easternmost bay of the nave, in

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style, with a short lead-covered spire. The church is not

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, because it does not have

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Interior

In the chancel is a

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which is dated 1846 but which is probably a restoration of an Early English sedilia. At the east end of the north aisle, but moved from elsewhere, is an

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-headed

piscina A piscina is a shallow basin placed near the altar of a church, or else in the vestry or sacristy, used for washing the communion vessels. The sacrarium is the drain itself. Anglicans usually refer to the basin, calling it a piscina. For Roman Ca ...

. The font was designed by Scott. It is thought that the reredos was also designed by Scott; it depicts the

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behind a tripartite

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, with a

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above. The choir stalls, which survived the fire, date from Harrison's restoration. The

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, dating from 1915–16 and by

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, was erected in memory of

William Glynne Charles Gladstone William Glynne Charles Gladstone (14 July 1885 – 13 April 1915) was a Liberal Party politician in the United Kingdom, and the last of four generations of Gladstones to sit in the House of Commons, the first being his great-grandfather Sir Jo ...

. The pulpit dating from about 1951 was designed by H. S. Goodhart-Rendel in a Wren style. In 1884 Edward Frampton created wall paintings in the south aisle of the chancel but, apart from two fragments at the east end, these have disappeared. The processional cross and churchwardens' staves were designed by

George Frederick Bodley George Frederick Bodley (14 March 182721 October 1907) was an English Gothic Revival architect. He was a pupil of Sir George Gilbert Scott, and worked in partnership with Thomas Garner for much of his career. He was one of the founders of Watt ...

. Much of the stained glass in the church consists of memorials to the Glynne and Gladstone families. Three of the windows in the chancel aisle dating from the 1850s are by

William Wailes William Wailes (1808–1881) was the proprietor of one of England's largest and most prolific stained glass workshops. Life and career Wailes was born and grew up in Newcastle on Tyne, England's centre of domestic glass and bottle manufacturing. ...

. Five windows elsewhere contain glass designed by Frampton, one of these being a memorial to his own wife. The glass in the west window was made by Morris & Co. in 1898 and was the last stained glass window to be designed by

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; it depicts a Nativity scene. The east window was also made by Morris & Co. in 1907 reusing a design by Burne-Jones. Glass elsewhere in the church is by

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, F. C. Eden and Haswall. The Gladstone Memorial Chapel contains a monument to W. E. Gladstone and his wife

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designed by Sir William Richmond and completed in 1906. It consists of a sculpture in the Arts and Crafts style which contains literary and other references and Christian symbolism, consisting of recumbent figures in

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marble, and an angel forming a canopy. The tomb chest is in a different type of marble with figures and panels in silvered bronze. The altar cross and the candlesticks were also designed by Richmond, as was the stained glass, which was made by

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. The oldest monument in the church is dated 1722. The monument to Sir Stephen Glynne, who died in 1874, consists of a recumbent effigy by

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in a tomb recess designed by John Douglas. An

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and

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tablet designed by Douglas and Fordham commemorates

William Henry Gladstone William Henry Gladstone (3 June 1840 – 4 July 1891) was a British Liberal Party Member of Parliament, and the eldest son of Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone and his wife Catherine Glynne. Life Gladstone was born in Hawarden, Flint ...

who died in 1891. Goodhart-Rendel designed tablets to the memory of

Herbert Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone Herbert John Gladstone, 1st Viscount Gladstone, (7 January 1854 – 6 March 1930) was a British Liberal politician. The youngest son of William Ewart Gladstone, he was Home Secretary from 1905 to 1910 and Governor-General of the Union of South ...

(died 1931), Gertrude Gladstone (1935) and Rev S. E. Gladstone (1920). Also in the church is a

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on one side of which is an inscription dated 1684 and, on the other side, part of the figures of a man and his wife dating from about 1630. Inside the church is a very detailed 1/48 scale model of the church, built by locals Robert Rowlands, Louis Sharkie and Richard Williams over several years.

External features

In the churchyard is a baluster sundial, and a South African War Memorial from the early 1900s, which is probably by Douglas and Minshull. The south gates to the churchyard, dating from 1877, were by Douglas. To the northwest of the church is a lychgate designed by

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in 1929, consisting of a pyramidal roof on ogee timber framing. The churchyard contains 57 Commonwealth war graves of service personnel, 9 from

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and 48 (predominately

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) from

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. Among those from the former war buried here is the politician

, a grandson of the Prime Minister, killed in action in 1915.
CWGC Casualty record, William Glynne Charles Gladstone.

References

External links

St Deiniol's pages
on Church in Wales site
Borderlands Mission Area website

St Deiniol's Church on Facebook

Hawarden Church bells (Dove's Guide)

Artwork at St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden
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