Eglwys y Bedyddwyr Ruthin is a Grade II listed building in the Denbighshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 19 July 2000. Chapel.

Eglwys y Bedyddwyr Ruthin

WRENN ID
sunken-pillar-jet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Denbighshire
Country
Wales
Date first listed
19 July 2000
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

Eglwys y Bedyddwyr Ruthin is a chapel featuring a squared grey limestone facade and rubble stone side walls, topped with a roof of small slates. The facade is distinguished by a crow-stepped gable, which is topped by a finial resembling a tiny bellcote with a lancet opening. Below this, there is a small roundel at the apex, and a tall pointed doorway framed by rock-faced voussoirs and jambs. Access to the entrance is via four stone steps with metal rails. The double board doors are set within a yellow stone surround, and the tympanum above is inscribed with 'Capel y Bedyddwyr 1934'.

The sides of the chapel feature modernist metal windows situated under low eaves, along with four large square windows, one smaller window, and one very small window on each side of the front wall. At the rear of each side, there are roughcast lean-to porches flanking a roughcast rear vestry, which has a lean-to hipped roof and a rear wall with a broad metal window flanked by narrow windows on each side.

Inside, the chapel has an unusual interior characterized by a four-bay roof supported by blue-painted steel trusses that extend low into the walls. The roof features a parabolic arch under a flat collar, linked by two diagonal struts, and includes triple purlins, exposed rafters with blue-painted plaster between, and is ceiled at the level of the top purlin with exposed collar-rafters. The plain lobby leads to a non-accessible gallery space above, with doors on each side and a timber cornice linking the door heads. The windows are adorned with Romanesque miniature arcades, featuring two bays on the first window on each side and five bays on the next three. The white-painted column shafts have simple Romanesque-type capitals and unmoulded arches.

The seating consists of a single block of pews arranged with aisles down the side walls, raked towards the rear. The pews are made of pale American oak and feature panel backs and shaped bench-ends. In front of the pulpit platform, there is a curtained low rail leading to a raised dais. The platform, also in pale oak, is elevated with steps on each side and has a long panelled front raised slightly for the centre pulpit, along with a matching panelled back that includes a bench seat. The back infills the base of a tall end-wall cambered-headed recess, which is recessed in two steps. Additionally, there are two plain arched doors in the end wall leading to the vestry, which has a plain flat ceiling and a similar cambered-headed recess on its end wall.

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