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Church History information for Llanddeiniolen and places above it in the hierarchy

Llanddeiniolen

Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 11, North Wales. Ed. by Ieuan Gwynedd Jones, UWP, 1981. The names given towards the end of each entry are those of the informants.

Llanddeiniolen Parish; Statistics; Area 9024 acres; Population 2460 males, 2434 females, total 4894

  • Club Room, Llanddeilionen (denomination not stated but see below)      Erected before 1810       Attendance - usual - afternoon 15              Informant; Wm Williams, Registrar
  • Llanddeilionen Parish Church         Consecrated before 1800.    Rebuilt on same site 1843        Attendance - morning 60             "Afternoon service is performed in a club room at the mountain end of the parish"       "I would beg to observe that the Parish Church of Llanddeiniolen is within 3/4 of a mile of the lower boundary of the Parish, and is well placed as regard the old agricultural population. But the bulk of the present population, which has, during the last forty years, been drawn together by the working of Mr Assheton Smith's slate quarries, lies at a distance from the Church of from 3 to 5 miles. There are in the parish 13 dissenting Meeting Houses."     Services in Welsh         T N Williams, Rector
  • Sion, Wesleyan Methodist          Erected 1818           Attendance - morning 70, evening 91                Erasmus Thomas, Trustee acting on behalf of  the Minister Erasmus Thomas, Llwyngwynt, Llanddeiniolen
  • Bethel, Independent or Congregational            Erected c 1811         Attendance - morning 126, afternoon 152 scholars, evening 164        "In this part of Wales the congregations are much more numerous on Sunday evenings ........."            David Griffith Ivan, One of the Minister
  • Peniel Chapel, Independent             Erected 1831                Attendance - morning 67 scholars, afternoon 55, evening 70             William Thomas, Pentir
  • Pisga, Wesleyan Methodist              Erected 1833          Attendance - morning 50, afternoon 60, evening 70              Edward Jones, Elder; Richard Bonner, Minister, Yr Allt, Pentir
  • Jehofa - Jeira, Wesleyan Methodist          Erected 1811   Not a separate building    Not used exclusively as a place of worship        Attendance - morning 56 scholars, afternoon 57, evening 76  William Price, Joiner, Penisaf Waen
  • Bazra Chapel, Independent           Erected 1841            Attendance - morning 36, afternoon 58 scholars, evening 46            Griffith Thomas, Penisarwaen
  • Rhydfawr, Calvinistic Methodist         Erected 1820            Attendance - morning 140 scholars, afternoon 160, evening 166               Owen Owens, Elder, Bryneithin
  • Ebenezer Chapel, Independents         Not used exclusively as a place of worship            Attendance - morning 268 scholars, afternoon 356, evening 360         "NB. Many of our Attendants who used to attend our Chapel being ill at home and Great many are gone & going to America during the last and present twelve months"        Thos Edwards, Minister, Ebenezer
  • Cefn-y-Waen, Calvinistic Methodists         Erected 1838          Day School       Attendance - morning 217 scholars, afternoon 307, evening 268               William Rowlands, Deacon, Cefn y Waen
  • Ysgoldy Llanddeiniolen, Calvinistic Methodists             Erected 1808         Attendance - morning 428, afternoon 184 scholars, evening 537         Robert Ellis, Minister, Cwrt-ybont
  • Dinorwic Chapel, Calvinistic Methodists              Erected 1833        Attendance - morning 306, afternoon 318 scholars, evening 297      Robert Jones, Trustee, Groeslon, Dinorwic
  • Sardis, Baptists            Erected 1820        Attendance - morning 62 scholars, afternoon 106, evening 108            John Jones, Minister, Dinorwig
  • Bryn-yr-Efail, Calvinistic Methodists            Erected 1844      Attendance - morning 110, afternoon 205, evening 86          Daniel Pritchard, Bryn yr efail

        Bethel Congregational Chapel - see under Genealogy below

        • Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry from this book for Bethel chapel (in Welsh) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (May 2012)        Also Shiloh chapel - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Oct 2012)           Also Ebenezer chapel   - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (April 2013)        Also Bozrah chapel - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Jan 2010)      Also Pentir chapel (Peniel at Waen-pentir) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Jan 2010)

        Various items  - on the People's Collection Wales site

        • ST DEINIOLEN CHURCH
        • PENISA'RWAEN METHODIST CHAPEL
        • BOSRA WELSH INDEPENDENT CHAPEL, PENISA'R-WAUN

        Caernarvonshire

        Church Plans Online - the Lambeth Palace Library holds a database of the Incorporated Church Building Society's images of the plans of various churches (use the onsite search facility)

        Welsh Chapels & Churches

        Gwynedd Family History Society  have a map of the ecclesiastical parishes of Caernarvonshire (Publications) on which there are links to photographs of some parish churches.

        Wales

        The Churchwardens' Accounts of England and Wales   The My Parish group are creating a searchable national database of all surviving churchwardens’ accounts from the earliest known (c.1300) to c.1850. This resource, although incomplete as yet, will be updated regularly as they continue to collect data

        Welsh Chapels & Churches This is an index ONLY to the Chapels and Churches which have photographs on Jill Muir's Welsh Chapels and Churches site

        Church Plans Online - the Lambeth Palace Library holds a database of the Incorporated Church Building Society's images of the plans of various churches (use the onsite search facility)

        Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru. Rees, Thomas & Thomas, John.1873 - here is a listing of the NAMES of chapels/places from each county's contents page from the CD of this 4 volume book published by Archive CD Books. There are also a complete extract of the chapel histories for 9 of the 14 Welsh counties -  in Welsh, many with translations .

        The Story of Non Conformity in Wales  - Addoldai Cymru (Welsh Religious Buildings Trust) is a charity set up to take into ownership a selection of redundant chapels that are historically and/or architecturally significant to the story of chapel building and Nonconformity in Wales and that are valuable to their local communities.

        Theological Colleges attended by Welsh ministers and priests. An exercise to discover which theological colleges Welsh nonconformist ministers and Anglican church priests attended in Wales (and  England).

        The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540-1835 - "launched in 1999 and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, makes available and searchable the principal records of clerical careers from over 50 archives in England and Wales with the aim of providing coverage of as many clerical lives as possible from the Reformation to the mid-nineteenth century........."

        Charles Surman's biographical card index of Congregational ministers   .........
        "was given to Dr Williams's Library in 1960. The Surman Index Online makes the contents available electronically via the internet for the first time. The index includes the names of about 32,000 ministers, and, where known, their dates, details of their education, ministries or other employment, together with the sources used. It covers the period from the mid-seventeenth century to 1972, and though it focuses on England and Wales, it includes Congregational ministers serving abroad provided they trained or served as ministers in Britain. Although intended as an index of Congregational ministers, it also gives details of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Presbyterians."

        Unitarian Obituaries 1798 to date  - The obituaries were published in journals which are held in the library at Harris Manchester College.

        A listing of JONES entries from the clergymen's database on Crockford's Clerical Directory of 1885. Compiled by Gareth Hicks from the CD published by Archive CD Books.

        The Church in Wales - structure

        Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1066-1300: volume 9 - The Welsh cathedrals (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site

        Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1300-1541: volume 11 - The Welsh dioceses (Bangor, Llandaff, St Asaph, St Davids). On the British History Online site

        Welsh Abbeys and other Religious Sites - information and photographs provided by Jeffrey L. Thomas.

        Independent Chapels of Wales: History Books and Pamphlets        On the NLW's site

        The Baptist Union of Great Britain site

        Quakers in Britain (then search on Wales)

        Coleg Trefeca - A centre for lay training, conferences and retreats owned by the Presbyterian Church of Wales.  Also Coleg y Bala, the children and youth centre

        National Synod of Wales The National Synod of Wales of the United Reformed Church, is one of thirteen Synods that cover England, Wales and Scotland.

        The UK Church Directory Information on 35,000 Christian churches and chapels

        See also under Religion and Religious Life below

        UK and Ireland