The Churches of Britain and Ireland

Welshpool, Powys     

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The former Christchurch (CiW) off Church Road. SJ 2213 0749. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link. Grade II* listed, wherein it's dated to 1839-44.

Kingswood Church (Pentecostal) was formerly Christchurch church rooms. SJ 2214 0754. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link.

New Street Baptist Church, on New Street. Older O.S. maps label it as Congregational, and its grade II listing, which calls it English Congregational, dates it to 1844. SJ 2241 0748. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link.

New Street United Church (U.R.C. and Presbyterian). It stands next door to the Baptist Church (see previous entry), and seems to be of a similar date, so may have originally been part of the same church. © Gerard Charmley (2010).

Bethel Christian Fellowship Church on Mount Street. A 1902 O.S. map labels it as Meth. Chap. (Calv). In 2023 Google Streetview was labelling it as permanently closed. SJ 2215 0763. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Another view, © Simon Edwards (2011).

Old maps show a Primitive Methodist Chapel at the north end of Chapel Street, fronting on Brook Street. This source dates it to 1879, closing before 1940. It has survived and was seen by Streetview in 2010. SJ 2215 0773.

St. Mary. SJ 2256 0766. © Mark Summers. Interior view, © John Balaam (2023). Link1. Link2. Grade I listed. Several related features are also listed, for which, see here.

St. Winnefrid (R.C.) on Mount Street. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link. It's dated on the history page to 1963, successor to a room converted into a small chapel in the Packhorse Inn (demolished, site not known to me, but nearby).

Welsh Independent Chapel, stands on Powell's Lane, and set back from Mount Street. Its Coflein entry dates it to the 1870's. SJ 2220 0765. © Gerard Charmley (2010).

Welshpool Baptist Church on Chelsea Lane. Its grade II listing dates it to 1811. SJ 2223 0756. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link.

Welshpool Methodist Church on High Street. Older maps label it as Wesleyan. SJ 2227 0759. © Gerard Charmley (2010). Link1, which dates it to 1863-4. Link2.

 

 

 

 

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