Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
17091
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
15/01/1996
Date of Amendment
15/01/1996
Name of Property
Penuel Baptist Chapel
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rhosllanerchrugog
Town
Locality
Rhosllanerchrugog
Easting
329117
Northing
346625
Street Side
W
Location
Prominently sited in the angle of High Street and Campbell Street.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
The chapel was first built in 1859 (there is a re-sited date-stone in the front wall) but was refronted and re-fitted in 1891, by Owain Morris Roberts, a local builder.
Exterior
Roughly coursed sandstone return elevations survive from the 1859 church. Entrance gable of 1891 is brick and terracotta: 3 storeyed, articulated as 5 bays by 3 tiers of pilasters (the storeys divided by string-courses). Central entrance bay stressed by pedimented gable, with date and inscription 'Penuel Capel y Bedyddwyr'. Pilasters in the upper stage are surmounted by ball finials; balustraded parapets to either side of the central pediment. First floor has alternately single and paired round-headed lights (blind in the outer bays), and rich terracotta cornice with twined acanthus detail. Ground floor has central porch flanked by paired windows and blind panels in the outer bays. Porch has paired segmental arches with keystones carried on stone shafts with terracotta bands and capitals. Grained 9-panel doors with stained glass in leaded fanlights. Rosette and modillion frieze. Return elevations of 4 bays (divided by buttresses in the N elevation), with round-arched windows to first floor, and flat lintels to lower windows. W gable is also brick, with paired round-arched windows at gallery level.
Interior
Entrance lobby with stairs to gallery to either side, and stained glass window onto chapel. This was entirely remodelled in 1891, and has raking floor and a gallery round all 4 sides with canted angles, carried on fluted cast-iron columns with Corinthian capitals; the parapet has modillion cornice and is panelled, with low-relief sunflower motifs at intervals; balustraded band below moulded rail. Wood-grained pews in 3 sections with 2 aisles; cast-iron foliate posts support wooden rail surrounding the set fawr, with similar detail to pulpit, approached via curving steps with turned balustrades. Plaster ceiling divided into rectangular panels, the principle beams carried on scrolled brackets. Large central rosette, deeply moulded with foliate and seed-pod motifs. Similar smaller rosette over pulpit. School room at a lower level to the rear, with meeting rooms etc to first floor.
Reason for designation
Listed for the exceptional quality of the terracotta enrichment of the facade - a very good example of a local feature - and for the fine interior.
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