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Wrexham University was formed when the North East Wales Institute (NEWI) was granted full university status in 2008. It consists of Plas Coch campus in the western part of the city and the North Wales School of Art and Design located on Regent Street. The institution was founded in 1887 as the Wrexham School of Science and Art.
In 1895, the Wrexham and Ellesmere Railway was completed [9] and cut a swathe through the city centre. In 1863 a volunteer fire brigade was founded. Wrexham benefited from good underground water supplies which were essential to the brewing of good beer and brewing became one of its main industries.
The Cathedral Church of Our Lady of Sorrows, also known as St Mary's Cathedral or Wrexham Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic cathedral in Wrexham, Wales. It is the seat of the Bishop of Wrexham, and mother church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Wrexham (founded in 1987).
The Wrexham Dispensary (later the Wrexham Infirmary) was founded in May 1833 on Yorke Street [6] [5] by Watkin Williams Wynn, following the efforts of Thomas Taylor Griffith, a local physician who had attended Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) who had taken ill during a visit at Wynnstay.
The Football Association of Wales was founded on 2 February 1876 at the Wynnstay Arms Hotel in Wrexham. [138] The first association football match in Wales is said to have been in or near Wrexham. [139] [140] Notable stadia in the county borough include the Racecourse Ground, the oldest in Wales; The Rock; and an athletics stadium at Queensway.
Town Hill (Welsh: Allt y Dref) is a street in Wrexham city centre, North Wales. It contains the listed buildings of Nos. 5, 7, and 9. The street is located on higher ground, just to the north of St Giles' Church. It forms a cross-roads junction at the centre of Wrexham with Church Street, High Street and Hope Street. It is now at the centre of ...
On the site's Chester Street side stood the former Wrexham Grammar School, founded in 1603 and closed in 1880, which later became home to Wrexham's first guildhall (also known as the Municipal Building) [39] and free library in 1884 following its acquisition by the local borough council, [40] in the year prior.
St Giles' Parish Church (Welsh: Eglwys San Silyn) is the parish church of Wrexham, Wales.The church is recognised as one of the finest examples of ecclesiastical architecture in Wales and is a Grade I listed building, described by Sir Simon Jenkins as 'the glory of the Marches' [1] and by W. D. Caröe as a “glorious masterpiece.” [2]