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Reference Number
18696
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
05/08/1997  
Date of Amendment
05/08/1997  
Name of Property
English Presbyterian Church  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Conwy  
Community
Abergele  
Town
Abergele  
Locality
Pensarn  
Easting
294915  
Northing
378663  
Street Side
S  
Location
Located near the centre of Pensarn, on the corner of Berllan.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Built 1877-8 by Richard Owens, architect of Liverpool, at the expense of John Roberts of Bryngwenallt, son of the benefactor of Mynydd Seion, to serve the growing English speaking community of the seaside town. Richard Owens had a long association with the Roberts family having been surveyor to John's father, David Roberts, in Liverpool and he is best known as one of the most prolific chapel architects having designed over 250.  

Exterior
Early Gothic style. Built of polygonal shaped blocks of limestone with ashlar oolitic dressings, and blue slate roof with green fish-scale slate bands. The main N front has a gabled porch between raking buttresses extending the side walls, and a pair of doors with a quatrefoil in the arch tympanum over. The N end of the body of the chapel is gabled between pinnacled buttresses, and has a large low-set wheel window, and decorative panelwork in the apex of the gable. The main body of the church is of 3 bays, the N bay with a hipped roof on a corbel table. Two-light windows with foiled heads. At the S end transepts with similar triple windows. Short square-ended chancel with a 5-light window, and the vestry tucked into the SW angle.  

Interior
The interior has plastered walls and a painted barrel vault carried on deeply coved sides, all boarded, the main vault with moulded ribs forming squares, and hammer beams with short shafts to wall corbels. Centre and side pews of pine. The altar table with an octagonal font at the side, all set behind an arcaded communion rail. Against the back wall, 7 seats for elders, with high panelled backs and shaped arm rests. Glass: the S window has stained glass figures figuring the prophets, under canopies. Organ, by P Conacher, set in a Gothic case.  

Reason for designation
Included as a robust design from this prolific chapel architect.  

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