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Church History information for Cloddiau Methodist Chapel, Cloddiau and places above it in the hierarchy

Cloddiau Methodist Chapel, Cloddiau

Trallwng, Y / Welshpool

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.

Pool or Welshpool Town and Parish consisting of Cyfronydd Township, Pool Lower Division, Pool Middle Division (comprising the town) and Pool Upper Division;  statistics; Area 6801 acres; Population 2090 males, 2301 females, total 4391

  • Cyfronydd Township ; Area 607 acres; Population 28 males, 30 females, total 58
  • No returns
  • Pool Lower Division ; Area 2637 acres; Population 596 males, 693 females, total 1289
  • Welshpool Parish Church            Attendance - morning 507 + 236 scholars, evening 472 + 77 scholars               Services in English                W Clive, Minister
  • Bethel, Primitive Methodist               Erected 1836              Attendance - afternoon 30, evening 50, no Sunday school      "The chapel has been closed for 2 years and only reoccupied again the last 3 months"           James Barnes, Minister, Newtown
  • Pool Middle Division; Area (inc Upper Division) 3557 acres; Population 1177 males, 1255 females, total 2432
  • Christ Church Chapel of Ease without Cure of Souls              Consecrated 1845 as an additional church                  Attendance - morning 65, afternoon 208 + 220 scholars           W Clive, Incumbent
  • New Street, Congregationalists             Erected 1845                  Attendance - morning 118 + 16 scholars, eveing 114 + 15 scholars              "At this time without a settled minister. The Revd John Davies our late minister died Feby 9th 1851 which is a reason for the congregation being so much decreased"             G Parker, Deacon, Draper, Welshpool
  • High St, Welsh Independents         Bought by Welsh Independents in 1845        Attendance - morning 21 scholars, afternoon 80, evening 94             Robert Hughes, Minister, Lower Terrace
  • Wesleyan Chapel, Wesleyan Methodist            Erected 1818                 Attendance - morning 170, evening 203             Edward Watson, Wesleyan Minister, Welshpool
  • Ebenezer Chapel, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist               Erected 1818            Attendance - morning 61, afternoon 52, evening 92              E J Bebb, J Jones, Deacons; E J Bebb, Draper
  • Pool Upper Division; Population 289 males, 323 females, total 612
  • Belar, Church of England             National Schoolroom     Licensed for the performance of Divine service               Attendance - afternoon 60 + 40 scholars            W Clive, Vicar of Welshpool
  • Wesleyan Methodist            Not a separate building and not used exclusively as a place of worship               Attendance - afternoon 16              Edward watson, Wesleyan Minister, Welshpool

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of Welshpool, Leighton Holy Trinity (see wikipedia for comment on this church on the Leighton Hall estate)

St Mary's Church, Welshpool in an engraved view of around 1840 - on the People's Collection Wales site

    Church of St Mary, Welshpool on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

    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 Trallwm  chapel (in Welsh ) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Jan 2011)   Also Trallwm (Cymraeg) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (Jan 2011)

    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

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