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: ...
By the end of the 1870s, a number of the mother chapels of the Welsh nonconformist denominations were not only reaching full capacity but also the early-nineteenth century designs and layouts were ...
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...
The last English nonconformist church to be established in Aberystwyth was that of the Presbyterians. English language services had been held at Seilo since 1863, later moving to the Temperance Ha...
In 1890 there was a disagreement amongst the congregation of Seilo, and a substantial number of members left to form a breakaway group. They initially meet in the assembly rooms, but in 1985 Salem ...
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 ...
The expansion of Tabernacl’s activities was not confined to the new chapel. In the Tan-y-cae area of the town by South Road, a school chapel was built in 1877. A Sunday school had been start...
Trefechan Sunday School was built in 1896 and demolished by 1996.
RCAHMW, November 2009
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’...
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