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Architectural Town Walk

Mid-19th-century town hall was by William Coulthart and built in 1848-51

18th-century Town Hall

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(Town Hall, Capel y Morfa & Doctors' surgery to Left) Turn right into Portland Road.

The first 18th-century Town Hall had been at the top of Great Darkgate Street. Its mid-19th-century replacement was built on a new site that closed the vista at the far end of earlier-19th-century development downtown in Portland Street. This mid-19th-century town hall was by William Coulthart and built in 1848-51, with a florid Ionic portico and single-storey wings and, from photographic evidence, afterwards encrusted with stucco ornament that looked of the later 19th century. This hall was burnt out in 1957, and its remains dictated the form of the present town hall, which was built in 1961 to the design of S. Colwyn Foulkes of Colwyn Bay in a neo-Georgian style with thin Adamesque portico and internal full-height entrance hall.

1895 Salem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Portland Street was opened

In the late 1890s a substantial number of members of Seilo Calvinistic Methodist chapel left to form a breakaway group. Initially this met in the Assembly Rooms, but in 1895 Salem Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Portland Street was opened. As if to emphasise the fracture, the new chapel, designed by Thomas Morgan, the architect of Bethel, was built in the Gothic style, in contrast to Seilo's Baroque. In 1907 the chapel was enlarged by the addition of transepts, a further departure from the Welsh nonconformist norm. The chapel is now known as Capel y Morfa.

Former English Congregational Church of 1865-6 by Paull and Ayliffe of Manchester

Further along on the right the former English Congregational Church of 1865-6 by Paull and Ayliffe of Manchester has been subdivided and converted to doctors' surgery and flats. Its polychrome detail and former slate spire were derived from G. E. Street's influential London church of St James the Less, Vauxhall Bridge Road, but the bell stage and tower of the Aberystwyth church were lost in the recent conversion.

Left into Terrace Road

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