Castle Square Presbyterian Church, Caernarfon
Castle Square Presbyterian Church, Caernarfon
Castle Square Presbyterian Church of Wales is a Grade II Gothic chapel at the east end of Castle Square, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, at the junction with Chapel Street.
- Location
- Caernarfon, Gwynedd
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Gwynedd
- City / town
- Caernarfon
- Address
- Castle Square, Caernarfon, Gwynedd, LL55 2NA
- Postcode
- LL55 2NA
- Built
- 1883
- Architect
- Richard Owen of Liverpool; contractor Richard Williams of Bank Quay, Caernarfon
- Denomination
- Other
- Grade
- II
- Style
- Gothic
- Materials
- Coursed rock-faced yellow sandstone with slate roof; cyclopean granite to the side wall; ashlar spire
- Grid reference
- SH 480 626
- Opening hours
- We are usually open on Tuesdays 12.30pm to 2.30pm and every Wednesday all year 10.30am to 12.30pm.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church
Overview
Cadw records that the chapel was built in 1883 (the date is on the building) by Richard Owen, architect of Liverpool, with Richard Williams of Bank Quay, Caernarfon, as contractor. The listing describes a Gothic chapel of coursed rock-faced yellow sandstone under a slate roof behind coped gables. The asymmetrical front has a tower and ashlar spire over a porch to the right and a two-storey porch to the left; the centre has lancets lighting the vestibule and tall triple lancets to the main chapel, with an arcaded frieze and a cusped roundel in the gable. The right side wall is of cyclopean granite in five buttressed bays, each with a pair of lancets. A two-storey vestry faces Chapel Street.
The interior has a five-bay arched-brace roof, a gallery on two cast-iron columns with foliage capitals, and a late nineteenth-century organ in a railed enclosure. The organ was bought second-hand in 1887; it had been built by Edward Franklin Lloyd, with a case by Robert Garnett and Sons of Warrington. Cadw lists the building with its forecourt walls and railings for its architectural interest and its contribution to the setting of Caernarfon Castle.