Seion Welsh Wesleyan Methodist Chapel, Llangollen
NEW CHURCH AT LLANGOLLEN - Crowded congregations have attended the opening services of the new Welsh Wesleyan Chapel that have been conducted this week at Rihewl (Llangollen). The new building, which has been-erected at a cost of £1,000 on a site given by Sir Henry Robertson, is of Gothic design, and one of the most attractive places of warship in the district. Grants of a substantial character have been made to the building fund by the Twentieth Century Fund, the North Wales Chapel Fund, etc. [Welsh Coast Pioneer 3 June 1904 page 10]
The chapel is designed in the decorated Gothic style with stone dressings and faced with pressed bricks. There are three sides and pinnacles in front. Accommodation is provided for 400 persons on the ground floor and in a gallery running round three sides of the chapel. An arched recess is appointed for the organ and choir. The roof is waggon-headed and of pitch-pine. The internal wood- work is also of pitch-pine. The windows will be filled with leaded lights of pleasing design. The entrance vestibule will be tiled. Adjoining the chapel are the school buildings consisting of schoolroom 41 ft. by 23 ft. with open pitch-pine roof and a large classroom 20 ft. by 23 ft. and two smaller classrooms and a small kitchen. A caretaker's house is provided, with living room, kitchen and scullery, and three bedrooms. The cost of the buildings will be about £1,000. The contractors are Messrs F. Evans and Son, Llangollen. The architects are Messrs W. J. Morley and Son, FRIBA, Bradford. [Y Gwyliedydd 17 August 1904 page 2 with illustration]
It has been constructed' of red-brick with stone dressing at an outlay of £ 1,000. Whilst the external arrangements have been made most effectively, the interior is a model of compactness and completeness and artistic beauty. The ceiling and the entire fittings are of pitch-pine the flooring of the- aisles, and the schoolroom being of solid blocks. The sitting accommodation in the chapel may be enlarged by the withdrawal of a sliding screen closing: off the school- room: which is under the same roof. The pulpit and rostrum of moulded tracery is of a, singularly chaste, and effective design; rand: the windows, filled with cathedral glass, give a mast effective finish to the whole. Spacious and convenient out-buildings have been provided! at the rear of the chapel, and the surrounding grounds, enclosed by an artistic iron fence, have been most tastefully laid out.'[Y Gwyliedydd 15 June 1904 page 2]