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Church History information for Byrwydd Independent Chapel, Pen-Y-Fron and places above it in the hierarchy

Byrwydd Independent Chapel, Pen-Y-Fron

Castell Caereinion / Castle Caereinion

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.

Parish statistics; Area 6540 acres; Population 385 males, 340 females, total 725

  • Castle Caereinion Parish Church         Attendance - morning 148 +55 scholars, afternoon 53, evening 35      3 services in English, 1 in Welsh          D Davies, Minister
  • Penuel or Castle Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist                     Erected 1843        Attendance - afternoon 84, evening 36        " .........The school was removed from a dwelling house in the village of Castle to the Chapel when it was opened in the year 1843 the school and congregation is connected with the Chapel"           Thomas Gittins, Deacon, Tylvaen (?)
  • Byrwydd, Independents                   Erected 1851                 Attendance - morning 50 scholars, evening 55          "........the old Sunday School was held for years in Brynhebog .......the School and congregation are connected with Penarth Chapel"              Robert Dafydd Thomas, Minister
  • Tabor Chapel, Welsh Calvinistic Methodists                    Erected 1829           Attendance - morning 78                    Thomas Hughes, Secretary, Grocer
  • Maesygroes, Wesleyan Methodists                   Erected 1822               Attendance - average - morning 30, afternoon 50 + 30 scholars             Evan Jones, Steward, Tanyllan
  • Jerusalem Congregational Chapel, Independents                    Erected 1841             Attendance - evening 130                     "The Chapel is situated on the borders of Castle, Llanfair, and Llangynin parishes. It will contain about 200 hearers. Sunday scholars are included in the congregation. The School is usually held at 10 in the morning.................."              Robert Dafydd Thomas, Minister

    Church of St Garmon, Castle Caereinion on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

    Church/chapel photographs - on the People's Collection Wales site

    • Castell Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist), Castell Caereinion 
    • Cwm Golau Chapel (Calvinistic Methodist), Byrwydd, Pont Pren-dano
    • Jerusalem Independent Chapel, Cyfronnydd

    Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru   (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Jerusalem  section (in Welsh) has been extracted - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Aug 2009)

    Montgomeryshire

    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  

    Montgomeryshire Churches Survey  on the Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust site

    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