St Mary's Church, Mold

St Mary's Church () stands on the site of a Norman church, which fell into disrepair in the 14th century. This was replaced by a larger one in the 15th century, which in turn deteriorated. It was demolished except for its tower. Construction of the present church began about 1490. The first patron of this was Lady Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond and Derby and mother of Henry VII.

The main body is built in local Cefn sandstone. Most of the church is Perpendicular in style, although the inner doorway of the south porch is Elizabethan. Its plan consists of a seven-bay nave with a clerestory, a one-bay chancel with a three-sided apse, north and south aisles, a west tower, a north vestry and a south porch. There is much carving on the stonework, including processions of animals. The tower has three stages and a battlemented top with crocketed pinnacles at the corner and in the middle of each side. There are stepped corner buttresses and a clock face on the south wall. The aisles also have battlemented parapets with crocketed pinnacles at the tops of the stepped…