Bangor, Gwynedd

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Many thanks to Nicholas Page for identifying several of these churches, and advising of their previous status. Nicholas' contributions are in italics.
 

Assemblies of God (Pentecostal) on Princes Road was the English Presbyterian Church until the mid-1980's. SH 5770 7231. © Martin Briscoe. Another view, also showing the Anglican Chaplaincy to the right, and its interior, both © Tim Hollinghurst. Link.

Baptist Church on Holyhead Road and The Crescent was previously the Twrgwyn Calvinistic Methodist Church. SH 5766 7216. © Martin Briscoe. Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1854.

Calvinistic Methodist Chapel (Martin is unsure of its current status, but it is marked as such on a map of 1913). Nicholas tentatively identifies this as the Hirael Calvinist Chapel. If so, it was intended to be converted to community use. © Martin Briscoe. Howard Richter has confirmed that this is indeed Hirael, on William Street (SH 5863 7246). According to the Coflein entry, it originally dates from 1843, but was subsequently modified or re-built in 1870 and 1876. Coflein also says that it was converted into flats in 2008 - this should be interpreted as "converted into flats by 2008", as a planning application for conversion had been lodged in 2002, and the first flat in the chapel sold in 2003.

Capel Pendref, Eglwys Annibynnol, on High Street. Old large scale maps label it as Independent. © Martin Briscoe. As of 2024, Google Streetview is showing it as an "apartment complex". Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1881-2.

The former Capel Tabernacl (Welsh Presbyterian). The information presented here previously was confusing, as I was conflating two Tabernacl's. The photo is of the second chapel, on Garth Road, and dated in its grade II listing to 1907. It also says that it was taken over by the BBC during WWII, and was later in use as a synagogue, then by the university, who sold it in 1984. Its Coflein entry says it was converted into flats in 1988. SH 5821 7252. © Martin Briscoe. Its predecessor stands on Dean Street and Tabernacle Street at SH 5835 7233. Seen from the rear by Streetview in 2018, it's unrecognizable as a former chapel from Dean Street (2009 Streetview). Its Coflein entry dates it to an 1834 re-build of a chapel originally of 1821, and converted to secular use "c. 1900" (presumably 1907, when the new Tabernacl was built).

Cathedral Church of St. Deiniol. According to its Coflein entry, the "oldest cathedral foundation in Britain". Another view. SH 5808 7205. Both © Martin Briscoe. Two additional views - 1, 2, the interior and organ, the wooden choir vault (designed by Sir George Gilbert Scott as part of his restoration), and the Lady Chapel altar, all © Adam McCurdy (2015). What is referred to as The Mostyn Christ is a late 15th or early 16th century oak sculpture, and some Flemish sculptures now in the north wall of the choir were rediscovered in 1961, having been discarded during the Reformation. Both © Adam McCurdy (2015). Link. Grade I listed. For related listed features, see here.

The Black Bull Inn on High Street is the former Church of Our Lady (R.C.). It also appears on a map of 1889 where it's labelled as St. Mary's R.C. Chapel. It was sold when Our Lady and St. James became the Catholic church in Bangor, in the late 1980's. SH 5797 7183. © Martin Briscoe.

Remains of a Dominican Friary were discovered in 1898. A map of 1911 marks the remains on Seiriol Road at SH 5857 7278, but a plan produced at the time (see here, figure 13) shows that they were quite extensive. A Streetview from 2023 looking down Seiriol Road from Beach Road gives a general view, the Friary remains extending across the housing at left and right. Link.

The former Ebenezer Congregational Chapel, at the junction of York Place and Caellepa, as seen by Streetview in 2017. The grade II listing advises that it was built in 1858 as a replacement for an earlier chapel of 1810 (it doesn't specify if this was on the same site or not), and it was closed in 1967 following merger with Pendref. SH 5827 7206.

Ebenezer Evangelical Church on St. Paul's Terrace. SH 5790 7187. © Martin Briscoe. Link. The land adjacent to the chapel is the site of the demolished St. Paul (Wesleyan Methodist). Ebenezer at right in a Streetview from 2022, St. Paul stood on the land to its left. Pre-dating a map of 1889, it survived in active use into the second half of the last century. An illustration from 1830 may show it here. SH 5789 7185.

Ein Harglwyddes a Sant Iago (Our Lady and St. James, R.C.) on Holy Head Road. SH 5756 7202. © Martin Briscoe. Link. The Coflein entry advises that this was previously St. James (Anglican, 1866), only becoming a Catholic church in 1996. Grade II listed.

A map of 1889 shows a Mission Room on Kyffin Square. In a 2021 Streetview its site is marked by the electrical substation; the ghost of the mission roofline can perhaps be seen in the adjacent terraced house. It no longer shows on a map of 1901. SH 5795 7188.

The cemetery on Caernarfon Road, Glanadda, used to have two Mortuary Chapels. Neither has survived. They are shown on a map from 1900 as Church of England at SH 5738 7125, and Nonconformist at SH 5737 7121.

Penuel Chapel on Garth Road. As of 2024, Google Streetview is showing it as "permanently closed". SH 5819 7239. © Martin Briscoe. Coflein dates it to circa 1950, built to replace an earlier chapel of 1909 demolished for road widening. This in turn was a replacement for earlier Penuel chapels of 1865 and 1814, and stood a little way south-west and across the road at SH 5819 7239. Its site was seen by Streetview in 2023 - had it survived it would have abutted against the Puregym building, and projected across the pavement onto the road.

St. David on Caernarfon Road, Glanadda. The Sanctuary. SH 5731 7132. Both © Tim Hollinghurst. Notice of planned closure from the BBC (2013). Grade II listed, wherein it's dated to 1888, by Blomfield.

Salem Independent Chapel is shown on a map of 1889 on Fountain Street at SH 5872 7258. Still shown on a map of 1956, its Coflein entry dates it to 1877, and "demolished in the early c.1900". So was the 1877 chapel demolished then, and a new chapel put up on the same site, and this too demolished later, or has the O.S. or Coflein made an error? Its site was seen by Streetview in 2011.

Santes Fair (St. Mary) off Garth Road. SH 5834 7246. © Martin Briscoe. Notice of planned closure from the BBC (2013). O.S. maps mark, a short distance to the N.W. of St. Mary, Friary (Site of) at SH 5830 7251.

St. Paul (Wesleyan Methodist) - see Ebenezer, above..

Seion (Zion) Wesleyan Methodist Chapel on Ambrose Street and Fford Seion. Since Martin took his photo the chapel has been repainted - 2016 Streetview - and appaers to be in residential use. SH 5865 7258. © Martin Briscoe. Link.