Congregational Church (including attached Sunday School, gatepiers, walls and railings) is a Grade II listed building in the Wrexham local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 22 February 1995. Bridge.

Congregational Church (including attached Sunday School, gatepiers, walls and railings)

WRENN ID
late-rafter-aspen
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Wrexham
Constituency
Montgomeryshire and Glyndwr MP: Steve Witherden (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
22 February 1995
Type
Bridge
Address
Congregational Church (including attached Sunday School, gatepiers, walls and railings), Ruabon
OS grid reference
SJ 300 439
Coordinates
52.98825, -3.04293
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Congregational Church, which includes an attached Sunday School, gatepiers, walls, and railings, is designed in the Gothic Revival style. It is constructed from roughly coursed and squared sandstone rubble with sandstone ashlar dressings and features a slate roof. The building has a T-shaped plan, with the schoolroom located at the rear. The gabled front showcases a central wheel-window and a recessed arched entrance surrounded by buttresses and gables, with simple tracery windows on either side. The elevation facing Pont Adam includes three windows with simple tracery and a basement-level entrance to the cellars. The gabled end of the schoolroom features a 3-light window with cusped heads, while the rear elevation of the schoolroom boasts a 5-light mullioned and transomed window with arched heads.

The ensemble is complemented by gate piers, gates, railings with fleur-de-lys finials, and a wall along Pont Adam.

Inside, the church has a waggon roof supported by timber trusses that rise from corbels set in the wall. There are tall arched openings with original doors flanking the central pulpit.

The furnishings reflect a contemporary scheme with pitch-pine elements. The pews retain doors and enamelled number plates, and the pulpit features carved foliated panels believed to have originated from the parish church of St. Mary's. The organ, made by Wadsworth & Bro. of Manchester, has painted and stencilled pipes, and the church is illuminated by chrome and glass electric lights from around 1930. The schoolroom has an inserted ceiling.

Local climate

Congregational Church (including attached Sunday School, gatepiers, walls and railings) receives an average of 850 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 59% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 92% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 37 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 70% of listed buildings. Of these, 20 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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