The arrival of the railway in Aberystwyth in 1864 made the town even more accessible to the visitor, especially from England. As the English Congregationalists appeal pamphlet stated in 1865: ...
The Baptists had been holding services in Aberystwyth since 1787, initially in a house in Queen Street, and in 1797, the Aberystwyth court leat allowed the Baptists to build their first chapel in B...
Ebeneser Methodist Sunday School was built in 1810 and rebuilt in 1839 by architect R. Emrys Bonsall, in the Vernacular style of the gable entry type.
RCAHMW, November 2009
Skinner Street School was originally built as a Poor School in 1839 and then rebuilt as a Sunday School 1847. It was built in the Sub-Classical style of the long-wall entry type. By 1998 the school...
The Calvinist Methodist cause in Aberystwyth had begun in 1770, the first chapel on the Mill Street site built in 1775. This first building was a small, long walled chapel, facing onto Mill Street ...
Little Chapel, claimed to be the smallest nonconformist chapel in Wales. It originated as an outbuilding to one of the houses in Laura Place and blocked openings in the Castle Street elevation sug...
The impetus provided by the opening of the railway that had led to the English chapel in Portland Street continued into the early 1870s. By 1869 the English Wesleyan chapel in Lewis Terrace was be...
The Welsh Wesleyans in Salem chapel, Queen Street decided a newer, larger and grander chapel was required by the end of the 19th century. A new chapel was built on a site of the Jolly Sailor’...
Preaching followers of John Wesley had reached Aberystwyth in 1804. Their instant success incurred the wrath of the Calvinists and others but by 1807 they had built Salem, a small galleried chapel...
As the Victorian era got into its stride, Aberystwyth developed as a seaside town of wider appeal. Many of the class of visitors were nonconformists but English speakers. The Welsh-speaking chape...
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