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Llangollen, Denbighshire

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The former Castle Street Welsh Baptist Chapel, now in secular use. SJ 2148 4204. © Martin Briscoe. Another view, © Alan Blacklock (2010). The 1860 date-stone, © Dennis Harper (2024). Coflein. Grade II listed.

City Church, in a former school on Brook Street, as seen by Streetview in 2015. Its grade II listing calls it Penllyn Evangelical Free Church. O.S. maps show that it was already in use as a chapel by 1910. SJ 2192 4186. Coflein has a more detailed history.

The former English Baptist Chapel on Abbey Road. Coflein calls it the Dr Prichard Memorial Baptist Chapel, dates it to 1895, and says it used to have a steeple until it was removed in 1979. SJ 2142 4325. © Gerard Charmley (2012).

Glenrafon Evangelical Church on Princess Street. It's shown on older O.S. maps as Glanrafon Chapel (Ind.). It post-dates a map of 1880. Coflein dates it to 1902-3. SJ 2135 4209. © Martin Briscoe. Another view, © Gerard Charmley (2012). Link. Grade II listed. It was successor to an earlier Congregational Chapel, set back from Church Street, and dated by Coflein to 1817, re-built 1843, and demolished sometime between 1951 and 1980. SJ 2173 4199. It stood set well back from the road, accessed by the gap between the houses seen in a Streetview from 2021. The single storey building in the background is on its site, though on a slightly different alignment.

Holy Cross (R.C.) on Oak Street. SJ 2155 4201. © Martin Briscoe. Another view, three interior views - 1, 2, 3, and the font, all © Dennis Harper (2024). Link.

The Methodist Church (originally English Wesleyan) on Princess Street. Coflein dates it to 1903. SJ 2128 4208. © Martin Briscoe. Link. Grade II listed. According to its Coflein entry, the English Methodist Church Memorial Hall (the predecessor of the Methodist Church) on Market Street and Greenfield was built as English Wesleyan Chapel in 1863, re-built in 1904, and "still in use as chapel" in 2002. SJ 2143 4203. © Gerard Charmley (2012).

Rehoboth Calvinistic Methodist Chapel on Hill Street. It's dated by Coflein to 1836, with later alterations. Its grade II listing says it is "former" but doesn't give a date of closure. SJ 2151 4188. © Martin Briscoe.

Seion/Zion Chapel (Wesleyan Methodist) on Berwyn Street and Castle Street. Its Coflein entry says it's at least the third chapel on the site, dating to 1905, with predecessors of 1804 and 1877/8. SJ 2148 4195. © Martin Briscoe.

St. Collen on Church Street. SJ 2167 4197. © Martin Briscoe. Another view, © Stuart Mackrell, and the interior, © Gerard Charmley (2012). Link. Coflein. Grade I listed. For related listed features, see here.

The ruins of Valle Crucis Abbey. SJ 2043 4416. From an old postcard in Steve Bulman's Collection. LinkGrade I listed.                        

 

 

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