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 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 ...

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...

The increasing congregation at Tabernacle had already prompted the formation of a daughter chapel. This was Seilo, constructed on the opposite side of town in 1861 at a cost of £2000. The desi...