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Rhosddu Road, WREXHAM, LL11 2NP

The Church of Saint James was built in 1874 to designs of W Turner of Wrexham and extended by the addition of a chancel and south porch in 1875, and designated as a parish church in 1886. The exterior is rusticated coursed and squared rubble Cefn sandstone with ashlar dressings and slate roof, banded in two colours and with terracotta ridge cresting.It is listed as a good local example of the small scale church building which characterised urban expansion towards the end of the 19th Century and retaining many original or early fittings.

To the left is a 24-hour Spar store which incorporates Rhosddu post office.

Looking towards the junction with Garden Road; Rowlands Pharmacy is on the corner (closed in this Sunday morning view). To the left behind the wall is a recreation ground.

Now the Morgan Llwyd Memorial Park. Surviving headstones are arranged along the boundary walls.

It is situated at the busy junctions of Rhosddu Road and Prices Lane. In the past it was the meeting place for many Wrexham FC fans on their way to and from games at the nearby Racecourse Ground.

From a plaque: "Parc Goffa Morgan Llwyd/Morgan Llwyd Memorial Park. "This ground, originally part of the common fields of Wrexham Regis, was for over two centuries used as a burial ground by Wrexham Dissenters. It was acquired about 1655 by the congregation gathered and ministered to by Morgan Llwyd o Wynedd (1619-59), author of 'Llyfr y Tri Aderyn' and other Welsh classics, who himself lies buried here. After his death the ground was maintained by The Old Meeting (now Chester Street Baptist Church), successors to Morgan Llwyd's congregation, by whose consent members of other dissenting bodies also used it for burial. It was officially closed in 1888, but a few later burials were permitted, the last being in 1901. In 1960 the ground was acquired by the Corporation and laid out as a park for the use of the borough and in commemoration of one of its distinguished sons. "Opened 1st May 1963." The monument to Morgan Llwyd was unveiled in 1912 by Mrs David Lloyd George.

Looking towards Wrexham town centre along the B5425.

Viewed from the end of platform 2.

Unit 150241 heads north out of the station, moving away from the camera, departing with a service to Holyhead.