Classical stone front of the former St Paul's chapel on Great Darkgate Street, with tall arched windows, columns and vertical YR ACADEMI and THE ACADEMY bar banners
Bar / pub venue

The Academy

Bar in the former St Paul's Welsh Wesleyan chapel (1880) on Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth, with the chapel's gallery, ceiling and organ pipes still in place.

52 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth SY23 1DW
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About this venue

The Academy occupies St Paul's, a Welsh Wesleyan Methodist chapel built in 1880 to a design by Walter Thomas of Liverpool on Great Darkgate Street in the centre of Aberystwyth. After the chapel closed in the early 1990s it was converted into a pub: booths for eating and drinking now sit on a levelled floor in the former raked gallery, the old pulpit serves as a DJ position, and the organ pipes stand behind the bar in the former schoolroom, added in 1903. The ceiling panels and the texts on the end gallery wall survive. The building was listed as closed long term in 2023 but is trading again under a new food registration rated in July 2026.

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Gallery

The Academy's long dark-stone chapel building with arched windows along the pedestrianised street The Academy's facade at night, columns floodlit blue and windows lit gold The former schoolroom wing of the chapel, with a gabled stone front and iron railings

Location

52 Great Darkgate Street, Aberystwyth SY23 1DW

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