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Church History information for Capel Coch Chapel, Llanberis and places above it in the hierarchy

Capel Coch Chapel, Llanberis

Llanberis

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.

Llanberis Parish; Statistics; Area 10431 acres; Population 567 males, 544 females, total 1111

  • Llanberis Parish Church                 The return is missing                    Services in Welsh
  • Rehoboth, Calvinistic Methodist            Erected 1833              Attendance -  morning 113 scholars, afternoon 212, evening 233  "The Teachers are 29 in number and are included in the number of Scholars"          Day school kept       William Morris or Griffith Davies, Deacon, Beudymawr, Cwmhaelhir
  • Jerusalem, Congregational               Erected 1832         Attendance - morning 135, afternoon 122 scholars, evening 175                Griffith Jones, Congregational Preacher
  • Capel Coch, Calvinistic Methodist         Erected 1847            Attendance - morning 306, afternoon 151 scholars, evening 280                Thomas Davies, Deacon, Mur mawr

      Diary and Commonplace Books of Reverend Peter Bayley Williams - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

      • "Diary of Reverend Peter Bayley Williams for the year 1825, containing many references to the parishioners of Llanrug and Llanberisetc ............"

      Caledfryn Cuttings - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

      • "Cuttings taken from the Protestant , 1840, containing a letter from Griffith Jones, Llanberis, attacking Caledfryn's (William Williams ) attempt to discipline the Llanberis Congregational Church ...."

      Capel Coch, papurau (papers) [1809]-1982 - details of extant records on Archives Network Wales

      • "Capel Coch was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel founded in the slate quarrying village of Llanberis in 1777....... The chapel was rebuilt in 1802 and 1846, with the present building dating from 1893...."
      • 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 Llanberis chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (April 2012)           Also Nantpadarn  - with translation by Eleri Rowlands (Oct 2009) 

      Various items - on the People's Collection Wales  site

      • ST PERIS' CHURCH
      • S. Padarn Church. Llanberis. n. Wales
      •  HEBRON CHAPEL, GWAEN CWM BRWYNOG

      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