Chester Street Baptist Chapel.
Wrexham has been home to a Baptist community since 1672. In the early
years they suffered a lot of discrimination officially by the state and
unofficially by local people. The Jacobite Cycle club that had their meetings
at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel on High Street frequently organised mobs to
destroy Nonconformist meeting houses.
In 1762 the Baptists finally got their own place of worship when they
built a chapel on Chester Street. They called it the Old Meeting to
celebrate their origins in worshipping in private homes. The chapel
was demolished in 1875 and its successor in 1987. They now worship
in the old schoolroom.
Carry on down Chester Street past the Seven Stars Pub and Lambpit
Street. You'll enter a pedestrians priority zone.
Many think the name Lambpit comes from a lime pit formerly in this area.
Next to the pub used to be the old Empire Cinema which claimed to be the first
purpose built cinema in North Wales. On the right is the People's Market.
Local wags say it was given this name to impress a visiting delegation
of Chinese industrialists.
Continue down Chester Street looking for the next street off to the
right Henblas Street.
Proceed to The Markets of Wrexham >>
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