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Church History information for Pantyffridd Mission Church, Pant-Y-Ffridd and places above it in the hierarchy

Pantyffridd Mission Church, Pant-Y-Ffridd

Aberrhiw / Berriew

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 12010 acres; Population 1125 males, 1052 females, total 2177

  •  Berriew Parish Church    "The present church was rebuilt about the year 1800 - opened for divine service 1803 in lieu of an old existing one. But was not reconsecrated"             Attendance - morning 250 + 50 scholars, afternoon 80 + 20 scholars       Services in English                John Meredith Williams, Curate
  • Fron, Wesleyan Methodists                     Dwelling house                  Attendance - afternoon 27                 John Morgan, Class Leader, Garthmyl
  • Providence Chapel, Wesleyan Methodist          Erected 1837         Attendance - morning 90 + 75 scholars, afternoon 75 scholars, evening 91       Wm. Richards, Steward, Halfway House, Garthmill
  • Chain House, Primitive Methodist              Erected 18 months, a house     Attendance - evening 73               Edward Hammonds, W. Larfinger (occupier). Garthmyl
  • Pentre Llifon Chapel, Wesleyan Methodists           Erected before 1800        Attendance - afternoon 35              Thomas Nicklen, Steward, Pentry
  • Ebenezer, Independent            Erected 1826                Attendance - morning 60, evening 130                    Thomas Davies, Independent Minister, The Crescent, Newtown
  • Tynycoed, Calvinistic Methodist             Attendance - morning 12 scholars, afternoon 45            William Jones, Deacon, Vachier, Berriew
  • Jerusalem Chapel, Welsh Calvinistic Methodist         Erected 1850                Attendance - morning 85, afternoon 90 scholars, evening 122       John Jones, Deacon, Redhouse
  • Veliendy, Primitive Methodist                Erected 1850; a dwelling house                    Attendance - afternoon 20           John Evans, Local Preacher
  • Mount Zion, Keel Township, Wesleans              Erected 1837     Attendance - morning 10 scholars, afternoon 100, evening 128        Robert Pryce, Local Preacher
  • Calvinistic Methodist, Ffrydd Township                 dwelling house        Attendance - morning 20, afternoon 30 scholars      Thomas Gwynne, Manager

See Welsh Chapels and Churches for a photograph of St Beuno Church, Berriew

St. Beauno's Church, Berriew on the People's Collection Wales site

See John Ball's site Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection for a photograph/data re St Beuno's Church

    Church of St Beuno, Berriew on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

    Wesleyan churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Berriew, Pentre Llifior

    Independent churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Ebenezer, built c 1829

    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 Berriew chapel (in Welsh )   - 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