Christ Church (Congregational), High Street, Llandrindod Wells, Powys

Christ Church Congregational Chapel was built in 1871 to the design of architect Robert Moffat Smith of Manchester. The chapel was then rebuilt in 1907 by architect William Beddoes Rees of Cardiff. By the late twentieth century Christ Church had been demolished to make way for a new church incorporated into an apartment block.

LLANDRINDOD WELLS - Opening of Christ Church - A little chapel in connection with the Congregational body was lately opened for worship at this popular resort. The building has been in progress for some time past. Its style is what is known as French Gothic of from the ninth to the eleventh century. The walls are of brick, faced with superior quality, on the outside are pointed off with black, and in the interior with white mortar, and a relief to the exterior has a double course or band of blue and white bricks, and the interior a single course or white band. At the west end, or the principal entrance, there is a tower of about forty feet, and it is intended to surmount this with a spire of 47 feet. The interior length is 42 feet, the width 32 feet, and it will afford sitting room for 270 persons. Open pews are adopted, and these are made of the best Quebec red pine, stained and varnished in a light and cheerful colour. A gallery is fitted in at the east end, and also at the west end. Both are three seats deep, the former being intended for the choir and organ. The lower windows are pointed in character with the architecture of the building. and above these are circular lights. At the east and west end there are also large circular windows, the former of which is in stained glass. A rostrum Immediately under the east gallery supplies the place of a pulpit, and will be equally applicable as a platform for other purposes than that of preaching, as the giving of lectures, etc. The total cost has been about £1,600. The architect is Mr R Moffatt (sic) of Manchester, and the builder Mr. Henry Hurst, contractor, Llandrindod. [The Architect 2 September 1871 page 123]

Reference    The Architect 2 September 1871 page 123