Built: 1870
Style: Gothic
Architect: William Henry Spall of Oswestry (1870), Gilbert Thomas Bassett (1898)
Cost: £3,000
History: By 1869 the English Wesleyan chapel in Lewis Terrace had become too small due to increasing numbers of the congregation and the English population in the town, which increased throughout the summer seasons. The site for the new chapel was on the junction of Newfoundland Street, which is now Bath Street and Queen’s Road, this was a central location in an expanding part of town.
However, it was built on marshy ground which was liable to flooding , therefore the fabric of the church slowly deteriorated so that after 120 years the utilisation of the premises where no longer fit for purpose and was demolished after its closure in June 1989. In combination with St Paul's Welsh congegation a new bilingual Methodist Centre was erected on the site and opened in September 1992,
The architecture of this new chapel portrayed its English congregation through the typical Gothic style, complete with a tower on the corner, topped by a slender spire.The chapel opened on 18 June 1870, and in 1898 there were modifications of a new entrance and a gallery.
It was demolished in 1989 and replaced by the present St Paul’s Methodist Centre, which opened in September 1992 and is a modern, single storey brick structure, with a corner façade onto Queen Street.
Sources: CeredigionFaithTrail
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