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 quick off the mark to make provision for English worshippers. Even before the railway had opened, in 1863 a site in Alfred Place had been acquired. The chapel took some time...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...