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Latitude: 52.6595 / 52°39'34"N
Longitude: -3.1485 / 3°8'54"W
OS Eastings: 322416
OS Northings: 307481
OS Grid: SJ224074
Mapcode National: GBR B0.5FJ5
Mapcode Global: WH79P.LFY0
Plus Code: 9C4RMV52+QJ
Entry Name: Former English Congregational Church
Listing Date: 11 March 1981
Last Amended: 29 February 1996
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 7823
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Former English Congregational Church
ID on this website: 300007823
Location: A prominent feature of New Street.
County: Powys
Community: Welshpool (Y Trallwng)
Community: Welshpool
Built-Up Area: Welshpool
Traditional County: Montgomeryshire
Tagged with: Church building Chapel
The English Congregationalists launched an appeal to raise funds for a new church in 1844: an engraving of the proposed church (and as built) is dated 1844, naming the architect as J.Vaughan of Oswestry. No longer used as a church, it is now a shop.
Gable facing the street is yellow terracotta; other elevations are local rubble with brick dressings. Slate roof. Wide gable articulated by 3 stepped arches with foliate capitals to shafts and nail-head enrichment to arches. Highest central arch houses doorway and Y-traceried window above, both similarly enriched. Y-traceried windows in outer arches, which are recessed above the plinth. Foliate capitals to outer pilasters, and coping to gable. Similar smaller entrance in gabled porch to the side of the building to the right. Return elevations are blind, but articulated by thin pilaster buttresses. Canted projection to E end has simple Y-traceried windows, the central one blind.
An undivided space with a gallery carried on cast-iron columns to the W. 4 king-post collar trusses with traceried panels braced and sprung from wall-posts. Shallow canted E end (formerly housing organ), recessed behind arch with foliate capitals and nail-head enrichment. Similar detail to flanking windows, which have stained glass.
The building retains much of its character even though it is no longer in use as a church. An unusually early example of its style, the building is also notable for the exceptional quality of the terracotta work to the principle elevation.
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