---
title: "Rivertown United Reformed Church, Shotton"
description: "Located in Shotton, Flintshire. Built 1899, replacing an 1897 corrugated-iron chapel; enlarged 1911. Late Victorian chapel style."
category: "Church"
tags: ["Church","United Reformed Church","Flintshire","Shotton","Congregational"]
canonical: "https://thebritishgazette.com/post/shotton-rivertown-united-reformed-church"
pubDate: "2026-09-06T02:40:00.879Z"
dateModified: "2026-09-08T00:34:18.360Z"
location: "Shotton, Flintshire"
country: "Wales"
county: "Flintshire"
town: "Shotton"
address: "Chester Road West, Shotton, Flintshire, CH5 1BX"
postcode: "CH5 1BX"
built: "1899, replacing an 1897 corrugated-iron chapel; enlarged 1911"
denomination: "United Reformed Church"
style: "Late Victorian chapel"
materials: "Brick"
website: "https://rivertown.org.uk/"
openingHours: "Open on Sundays for worship and during the week as a community hub."
gridReference: "SJ 307 689"
accessNotes: "Level access to the main areas. Non-accessible toilets in church"
---

# Rivertown United Reformed Church, Shotton

Rivertown URC stands on Chester Road West in Shotton, Flintshire, a former English Congregational chapel that has served the Deeside high street for more than a century.

## Overview

The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales records Rivertown Congregational Chapel as built in 1897 and enlarged in 1911. The congregation’s own account, and that of Ainsley Gommon Architects, states that worship began in May 1897 in a corrugated-metal building and that a larger brick church opened in 1899, later extended north in 1911 and south in the 1960s, when the original entrance was replaced. The building is not listed by Cadw.

The church remains an active United Reformed congregation and community hub. A redevelopment known as Hope on the High Street, designed with Ainsley Gommon Architects, has planning consent to reorder the interior for café, halls and community use. Coflein holds the monument record for the chapel.

## Further Information

- [Rivertown URC](https://rivertown.org.uk/)
- [Coflein / RCAHMW record](https://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/FLN/Shotton/RivertownEnglishCongregational)