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Church of St Peter and St Meugan, Ruthin, Denbighshire

Diocese of St Asaph 

Church recorded 1291 as a college of canons under a dean. In 1310 John de Grey petitioned the bishop of St Asaph for permission to build a new collegiate church within the town and it was constructed between 1310 and 1315. The cloisters of that date survive. South nave dates to the late fourteenth century, and the nave roof to the late fifteenth or early sixteenth century. The College was dissolved around 1536-9, but was refounded in 1589-90 by Dean Gabriel Goodman of Westminster (a native of Ruthin) as an almshouse, to complement the school he had founded 1574. The chancel was demolished in 1663. Much restoration was undertaken in the early nineteenth century and again during 1855-58 by R.K. Penson. The new spire was added in 1858 and the church re-opened 1859.

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Noah and St John the Baptist firm/studio: James Powell & Sons designer: Augustus Jules Bouvier 1855 Church of St Peter and St Meugan, Ruthin, Denbighshire north wall of the north aisle

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