Ffynnon Chapel, Llanddewi Velfrey (Welsh Baptist)

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• The entry for this church on the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW) website (Coflein).
• There is also a separate Baptist cemetery nearby shown on Streetmap at SN131170 
  • Trefangor Baptist Burial Ground, Llanddewi Velfrey       SN131170      Believed to be still open (2013)
  • "The establishment of the cause is attributed to William Jones who was dismissed as the vicar of Cilmaenllywd in 1660, became a Baptist and began a new ministry in the region, performing some 30 adult baptisms in 1667. Early meetings may have been held at Rushacre, near Narberth, the seat of Griffith Howells, one of the first local converts from the Independents. The first chapel at Rhydwilym was built in 1701: in the same year that some members emigrated to found Baptist Churches in America. ........... Rhydwilym chapel did not have an attached burial ground. In 1667 before the chapel was built, Griffith Howells donated land at Trefangor, Llanddewi Velfrey, and this became the principal resting place for many of the Baptists in the region. Memorials to Howells, his son John, and several early Rhydwilym ministers may still be seen in this cemetary..........."   (Rhydwilym and the Baptists; The Landsker Borderlands- Its History & Landscape" 1992, Dyfed Archaeological Trust.)
  • For further background on this burial ground see also this article of 1908, DECHREUAD A CHYNNYDD Y BEDYDDWYR YN SIR BENFRO, from Greal (Llangollen) on Welsh Journals Online and also  this article of 1862, A Welsh Charon (From the Examiner) from the Sydney Morning Herald on Trove Digitised Newspapers

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