Crescent English Presbyterian Church, Milford Road./ Crescent Road., Penyglodfa, Newtown
Crescent Presbyterian Chapel was built in 1845 and rebuilt in 1879. The present chapel, dated 1879, was designed by architect Richard Owens of Liverpool and built in the Gothic style with a gable entry plan and integral tower.
THE NEW ENGLISH CALVINISTIC METHODIST CHAPEL AT NEWTOWN. LAYING THE MEMORIAL STONES. The ceremony of laying the memorial stones of the New Crescent English Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Newtown was performed on Friday, May 3, by the Hon. F. Hanbury Tracy, M.P., and Mr. David Davies, M.P. The site of the new chapel, a very prominent and valuable one, was a free gift of Lord Sudeley to the Calvinistic Methodists, It is in Broad-street, at the corner of Milford-road. The main entrance fronts Broad-street, and the vestry and school entrances face Milford-road. The style adopted is a geometrical Gothic, the plan being a parallelogram, 64 feet in length, 34 feet in breadth. The schoolroom and vestries form a cross at the back, so as to give a transept appearance. Size of school, 45 feet by 26 feet; two vestries, 12 feet by 11 feet. Sittings will be provided for 350 persons on the ground floor and about 100 in the gallery, which will be situated at one end and over the entrances. All the internal wood work will be of pitch pine, worked clean and varnished. The ceiling will be a waggon-head shape, showing the ribs of principals, and intersected with mullions. The external elevation to Broad-street and Milford-road will be carried out with blue Penstrowed stone and Grinshill stone, dressings, buttresses and jambs, cornices and all windows to have mullions and tracery. The north-east angle will have a tower and spire 90 feet high, the juncture of tower and spire to have pinnacles and a pierced parapet. The centre of principal front will have a very large three-light window. All roofs are to be covered with Carnarvonshire slates in two colours, and all windows are to be glazed with cathedral tinted glass and coloured borders. Provisions are made for a heating apparatus and a proper ventilation. The work has been let in one contract to Messrs. Morris and Son, Newtown, for the sum of £2,725 the architect being Mr. Richard Owen, Breck-road, Liverpool. [Cambrian News 10 May 1878 page 5]
OPENING OF THE NEW CALVINISTLC METHODIST CHAPEL, NEWTOWN. This new chapel, which has been built by the members of the English Calvinistic Methodist denomination, was opened on Friday, May 16. The site, which is a very admirable one, was given by Lord Sudeley. The memorial stones were laid on Friday, May 3, 1878, by the Hon. A. F. Hanbury Tracy, M.P., and Mr. D.Davies, M.P. We gave an architectural description of the building in our account of the proceedings upon that occasion. The chapel provides sittings for 850 on the ground floor and about 100 in the gallery. There is a tower at the north-east angle, with a spire 90 feet high. The chapel is a very handsome one. Mr. Richard Owen, Breck-road, Liverpool, was the architect, and Messrs. Morris and Sons, Newtewn, the contractors. The amount of the contract was £2,725. The principal entrance to the chapel from Crescent- street is attained through a wide gateway, up a flight of free stone steps. A similar, though smaller, entrance to the schoolroom and vestries is placed on the Milford-road side. The edifice and grounds are enclosed by substantial walls, the one in front being of Penstrowed stone, with free stone capping, in keeping with the front of the chapel, the wall being relieved in alternate lengths by a light and handsome pallisade. [The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 23rd May 1879 p.3]
OPENING OF THE NEW CALVINISTIC MBTKODIBT CHAPEL.—This new chapel, which has been built by the members of the English Calvinistic Methodist denomination, was opened on Friday, May 16. The site, which is a very admirable one, was given by Lord Sudeley. The memorial stones were laid on Friday, May 3rd, 1878, by the Hon A. F. Hanbury Tracy, M.P., and Mr. D. Davies, M.P. The chapel provides sittings for 360 on the ground floor and about 100 in the gallery. There is a tower at the north-east angle, with a spire 90 feet high. Mr. Richard Owen, Breck-road, Liverpool, was the architect, and Messrs. Morris and Sons, Newtown, the contractors. [Wrexham Guardian 24 May 1879 page 7]
Reference Cambrian News 10 May 1878 page 5
Reference The Cambrian News and Merionethshire Standard 23rd May 1879 page 3
Reference Wrexham Guardian 24 May 1879 page 7