Trinity Presbyterian Church
Trinity English Presbyterian Church
Trinity Presbyterian Church of Wales
The church viewed from Rhosddu Road, with King Street and the bus station to the right.
53°02′55″N 2°59′43″W / 53.048628°N 2.995201°W / 53.048628; -2.995201
LocationWrexham, North Wales
AddressKing Street, Wrexham, LL11 1SE[1]
CountryWales
DenominationPresbyterian Church of Wales
Websitetrinitywrexham.org.uk
Architecture
StylePerpendicular Gothic
Completed1908
Specifications
Number of floors1[2]
Administration
PresbyteryNorthern[3]
Clergy
Minister(s)David Jones
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameTrinity Presbyterian Church of Wales
Designated31 January 1994
Reference no.1848[4]

The Trinity Presbyterian Church is a presbyterian church in Wrexham, North Wales, part of the Presbyterian Church of Wales' Wrexham Mission Area. The church building was built and opened in 1908 to the Perpendicular Gothic designs of William Beddoe Rees. It is a Grade II listed building, covered in largely red brick and contains a tower.

Congregation

The church is an English-speaking congregation of the Presbyterian Church of Wales,[5] as is part of the church's Wrexham Presbyterian Mission Area which included other Presbyterian churches around Wrexham.[6]

Public worship and a Sunday school[7] is held on Sundays in the church, with various meeting held on other days of the week.[6]

As of July 2023, the minister is David Jones, and the secretary is Gwenda Fletcher.[8]

Structure

The building on the junction of King Street and Rhosddu Road (adjacent to the bus station),[9] was built in 1907[10]–08 and officially opened in 1908, although the church congregation existed before the building.[5][4][11] The church was built for the English Calvinistic Methodists as a replacement for their Hill Street premises, which is now the Grove Park Theatre. When it was built it housed a schoolroom. The schoolroom was occupied by late 1907, when the first service occurred.[12] The building was designed by William Beddoe Rees from Cardiff, and is a Grade II listed building.[11]

The building is made of Ruabon red brick with stone dressings and a slate roof with terracotta crestings, and some additional yellow sandstone.[12] It is of the Perpendicular Gothic architectural style, with a long-wall entry plan[11] and contains a tower. The entrance to the church is located at the base of the tower, with the tower forming a fourth bay on the west side. The tower is brick at its lower stages, becoming a stone to bell-chamber stage with embattled parapet higher up the tower and topped with a pyramidal spirelet. The building is of a three-bay aisle with three-light windows with an embattled parapet and gable over a higher central window. All windows on the building are simple stained glass with art nouveau motifs. The northside is a wide gable with banded stone and polygonal turrets, with a high seven-light window; and art-nouveau lines to tracery. The principal vertical elements, a pair of corbelled buttresses serve as mullions, continue as pinnacles either side of the gable's apex.[4]

The church's main hall is at a right angle to the church at the south-west corner of the site, and is lit up with a high five-light traceried window on its eastern wall, with lower paired windows either side of its gabled porch. There are vestibule and subsidiary rooms in a parallel range which faces King Street, with a central gable and canted bay window. Its roofs are swept down either side of the entrance (to the right) and has its wood mullioned and windows transomed. There are further rooms in the asymmetrical rear wings of the building, either side of the hall range.[4]

The site of the building is bounded by a brick wall with stone copings, gate piers with stone bands and caps, and cast-iron gates which incorporate decorative panelling with art nouveau motifs.[4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Places of worship in Wrexham County Borough | Wrexham County Borough Council". www.wrexham.gov.uk. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  2. ↑ "Trinity English Presbyterian Church, King St./rhosddu Rd., Wrexham". welshchapels.wales. Addoldai Cymru - Welsh Religious Buildings Trust. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  3. ↑ "Trinity, Wrexham | The Presbyterian Church of Wales". Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 Cadw (31 January 1994). "Trinity Presbyterian Church of Wales (Grade II) (1848)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  5. 1 2 "Welcome - Trinity Presbyterian Church". www.trinitywrexham.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  6. 1 2 "About Us - Trinity Presbyterian Church". www.trinitywrexham.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  7. ↑ "Services - Trinity Presbyterian Church". www.trinitywrexham.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  8. ↑ "Contact Us - Trinity Presbyterian Church". www.trinitywrexham.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  9. ↑ "Find Us - Trinity Presbyterian Church". www.trinitywrexham.org.uk. Retrieved 2 July 2023.
  10. ↑ Hubbard, Edward (1 March 1986). Clwyd: Denbighshire and Flintshire. Yale University Press. p. 304. ISBN 9780300096279. Built 1907-8. Ruabon brick and some stone. Perp tracery and a tower. Front with pepperbox corner turrets and a broad window containing Art Nouveau tracery. A pair of corbelled buttresses serve as mullions and continue up to become pin-nacles. By W. Beddoes Rees of Cardiff (Ian Allan).
  11. 1 2 3 "Trinity English Presbyterian Church, King Street and Rhosddu Road, Wrexham (7924)". Coflein. RCAHMW. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
  12. 1 2 "King Street - Trinity Church". buildingsofwrexham.co.uk. 2013. Archived from the original on 6 April 2019. Retrieved 4 July 2023.
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