Bathafarn Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Market Street, Ruthin

Bathafarn Wesleyan Methodist Chapel was built in 1869 to the design of architect Richard Owens of Liverpool, to replace an earlier chapel in Mill Street. The building was modified in 1913/14. The present chapel, dated 1869, is built in the Sub-Classical style of the gable-entry type, in red brick with yellow sandstone dressings. RCAHMW, January 2010

LAYING OF THE MEMORIAL STONE OF THE WESLEYAN CHAPEL AT RUTHIN. The Wesleyans of this town have long ago felt the want of a more eligible and commodious place of worship than the old chapel (erected 66 years ago), which is situated in a back narrow road near the Ruthin Mills, and numerous have been their efforts for years to obtain a more suitable site to erect a new chapel on. Since the formation of the Denbigh, Ruthin, and Corwen Railway, which caused the opening of a new street from the Market Place to the railway station, and in which has been erected the handsome block of buildings containing the Guildhall, Assembly Room, Corn Exchange, butchers', poultry, and butter markets—a very eligible and elevated site for a new chapel presented itself, of which the Wesleyan body in this town availed themselves, and a neat new building is in course of erection, the plan of which is a parallelogram, the inside measurement being 46 feet by 33 feet inside. It will have galleries on three sides, and the whole of the ground floor is to be occupied with pews. The exterior front is being built of the best St. Helens patent brick with elaborate stone dressings, and the sides of the best Ruabon brick and stone dressing. The front will have a neat central porch, and an ornamental window above. The angles will be finished with massive coigns, and the principal gable with a bold ornamental cornice, springers, and an elaborate final. A tablet stone with appropriate inscription will be inserted over the principal doorway. The door to be of deep moulded jams and columns with foliated caps. The interior will have a pleasing appearance, the ceiling being a very ornamental feature. The minister's platform and communion will be of very neat and elegant designs. The woodwork of the interior will be pitch pine well varnished. The chapel will seat some 350 persons. The style adopted by the architect, Mr Richard Owens, 2, Breck-road, Liverpool, is the Lombardic, slightly modified. Mr John Griffiths, of Llanrhaiadr, near Oswestry, is the contractor, who has commenced in good earnest, and has bound himself to complete by the 29th June next. [Wrexham and Denbigh Advertiser 19 December 1868 page 5]