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

Trefriw

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.

Trefriw Parish; Statistics; Area (with Llanrhychwyn parish) 9576 acres; Population (just Trefriw) 214 males, 214 females, total 428

  • Trefriw Parish Church           "The Church has been for about a century in a most dilapidated and wretched condition and considered by the parishioners not only unfit but highly injurious to their health to attend. The attendance in consequence of this has been very small. The Church is at prsent and has been for the last 12 months undergoing a thorough restoration and is expected to be finished in about 6 weeks ......." W Lewis Walker, Rector
  • Nebo, Trefriw, Calvinistic Methodists       Erected 15 years ago                    Attendance - morning 27 scholars, afternoon 27                   "The weather was unfavourable this day at our high land place"             John Roberts, Manager, Tyddyn Wilym
  • Penuel, Trefriw, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist        Erected 1815          Attendance - morning 133, afternoon 108 scholars, evening 192                      Roger Thomas Rogers, Deacon
  • Ebanezer, Trefriw, Independants                    Erected 1833              Attendance - morning 103 + 63 scholars, afternoon 148, evening 85                  "There had began to preach about 60 years ago in this neighbourhood for independants"      Henry Jones, Diacon, Tan y Celyn
        • 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 Trefriw chapel (in Welsh )   - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Dec 2009)

        Church, Trefriw (1883) - on the People's Collection Wales  site

          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