Rhyl has a number of Grade II
listed buildings and landmarks. These include the Parish Church of St Thomas in Bath Street, which is listed as Grade II*. Others are the
Midland Bank building, the railway station along with two signal boxes and the public telephone box on the up platform, the
Royal Alexandra Hospital, the Sussex Street
Baptist Church,
Rhyl Town Hall, the
Swan public house in Russell Road, the
war memorial, and the
Welsh Presbyterian Church in Clwyd Street. ,
Rhyl Sands (c.1854), depicting the Rhyl seafront Also notable is the Grade II listed Foryd Harbour Bridge, a blue bridge with distinctive bowstring girders built in 1932. Situated over the
River Clwyd, it links Rhyl with Kinmel Bay. Another landmark is the Church of
St Margaret of Antioch. The Marble Church was built by Lady Margaret in memory of her late husband, Sir Henry Peyto Willoughby de Broke. It was completed within four years and consecrated on 23 August 1860, becoming the parish church of a new parish of Bodelwyddan, covering an area formerly in that of
St Asaph. The church opens daily from 9:30 to 16:30, except between 25 December and 6 January. A previous Rhyl landmark was the ornate Pavilion Theatre with five domes, which was demolished in 1974. Half a mile further down the promenade stood
Rhyl Pier, opened in 1867 at long. The structure was damaged by ships in 1883 and again in 1891. It was further damaged in 1901 by fire. Storms were responsible for further damage in 1909 in 1913 was closed as unsafe. Although it reopened with a much-reduced length in 1930, it closed again in 1966 and was demolished in 1973. Rhyl's top attractions on the West Parade are Rhyl Children's Village theme park, and the Sky Tower (formerly the
Clydesdale Bank tower, brought to Rhyl from the 1988
Glasgow Garden Festival). The Sky Tower opened in 1989, but it was closed to the public in 2010 and transformed into an illuminated beacon in 2017. A
VUE Cinema that closed in January 2025 was also located there, although this cinema is being reopened under
Merlin Cinemas. Up until 2014, Rhyl Suncentre was an attraction on the East Parade; an indoor water leisure centre which opened in 1980 at a cost of £4.25 million and featured a heated swimming pool, water chutes and slides, and Europe's first indoor surfing pool. The local council closed the centre in early 2014 and it was demolished in 2016. A new
Travelodge hotel was built next to the site, which opened in early 2019. A new indoor/outdoor water park, the
SC2, opened further along the promenade in 2019, and includes various pools with water chutes and slides, as well as a separate "Ninja Tag" assault course game complex. Also on the East Parade is the New Pavilion Theatre, opened in 1991. It has over 1,000 seats and is managed by Denbighshire County Council. Redevelopment of the Pavilion theatre in 2017 provided for a new façade, entrance foyer and restaurant, and refurbished bar areas.
Marine Lake The Marine Lake, an artificial excavation in the west of the town, used to be a tourist destination, with fairground rides and a zoo. The lake is a 12-hectare human-made reservoir and it was officially opened in 1895.
Rhyl Miniature Railway is the only original attraction remaining on the site, a
narrow gauge railway that travels around the lake and is now based at the new museum and railway centre. There is also a playground and numerous watersports clubs based around the lake. site (December 2007) The Marine Lake Funfair was demolished in the late 1960s, having been replaced by the nearby
Ocean Beach Funfair. Ocean Beach finally closed on 2 September 2007 and was demolished to make way for a planned new development initially called Ocean Plaza. This was to include apartments, a hotel and various retail outlets. However, work on Ocean Plaza never went ahead as scheduled and the land lay vacant for several years after the original developers, Modus Properties, went bankrupt in 2009. The site was sold to a new company, Scarborough Development Group (SDG), in 2010, but again no work commenced on the site for several years. In 2014, SDG submitted revised plans to develop the land on a much smaller scale than the original plans. Now called Marina Quay, the plans no longer include the building of new apartments on the land as
Natural Resources Wales' flood regulations now prohibit this. The plans were approved by the local authority in November 2014. In August 2015,
The Range retail chain signed a 20-year lease and opened a new outlet on the site in March 2018.
Aldi also opened a branch on the site in 2019. ==Governance==