Capel Bethesda, Yr Wyddgrug / Mold
Capel Bethesda, Yr Wyddgrug / Mold
Capel Bethesda is a Grade II* Presbyterian Church of Wales chapel on New Street, Mold (Yr Wyddgrug), Flintshire: a grand Classical chapel of 1863 by W. W. Gwyther, associated with the novelist Daniel Owen.
- Location
- Yr Wyddgrug / Mold, Flintshire
- Country
- Wales
- County
- Flintshire
- City / town
- Yr Wyddgrug / Mold
- Address
- New Street, Yr Wyddgrug / Mold, Flintshire, CH7 1NZ
- Postcode
- CH7 1NZ
- Built
- 1863 on the site of an 1819 chapel; congregation founded 1794; schoolroom wing 1893
- Architect
- W W Gwyther of London (1863); Richard Owen of Liverpool (1875 alterations)
- Denomination
- Presbyterian Church of Wales
- Grade
- II*
- Style
- Classical with Corinthian portico
- Materials
- Ashlar front; squared rubble side elevations; pitched slate roof
- Grid reference
- SJ 236 637
- Opening hours
- Whilst the chapel vestry is much used by the community during the week, in order to gain access you can email us.
- Access
- Accessible toilets in church. Level access throughout. Level access to the main areas
Overview
Cadw lists Bethesda Welsh Presbyterian Chapel and Schoolroom (reference 391, designated 29 June 1981). The 1863 chapel by W. W. Gwyther of London stands on the site of an earlier chapel of 1819; the cause was established in 1794. A grand two-storey, five-bay ashlar front has a tetrastyle Corinthian pedimented portico with flanking panelled bays, a dentil cornice and a pitched slate roof. Broad steps sit between pedestals with iron gas-lamp posts. Six-bay squared-rubble side elevations have round-arched gallery windows over square-headed lights. A gabled rear organ chamber contains a re-sited tablet from the 1819 chapel. Single-storey gabled extensions of 1893 house kitchen, library and schoolroom. The galleried interior has a coffered ceiling, a raked gallery on cast-iron columns, a 1905 organ case mixing Gothic and Classical detail, a fine great seat, and a pulpit with three carved and coloured panels of wheat and grapes. Coflein records further work in 1875 by Richard Owen of Liverpool and renovations in 1905. Notable members included Daniel Owen, who based much of his fiction on chapel life here, and Professor Ellis Edwards of Bala.
Welsh-language Sunday worship continues; weekday access is by arrangement through the vestry.