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Church History information for Ty Cerrig Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan;Bryn-Awel), Ty Cerrig, Comins-Coch and places above it in the hierarchy

Ty Cerrig Methodist Chapel (Wesleyan;Bryn-Awel), Ty Cerrig, Comins-Coch

Llanwrin

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 10351 acres; Population 386 males, 382 females, total 768

  • Llanwrin Parish Church          Attendance - morning 90 + 18 scholars, evening 40 + 18 scholars     "This parish is mountainous & entirely agricultural with extensive farms near the Church, which is situated at the southern extremity - consequently only a few of the Inhabitants can without inconvenience from the distances of their residences assemble in the Church or Church School on Sundays regularly"    Services in Welsh            Isaac Bonsall, Rector
  • Ebenezer, Calvinistic Methodist               Erected 1841             Attendance - average - morning 75, afternoon 61 scholars, evening 75        "No service on the 30th of March except a School in the afternoon, a prayer meeting was held at a farm house called 'Ceninos', 70 persons present at 7 o'clock"        John Jones, Superintendent, Culfylchau, Machynlleth
  • Acher, Independent                    Erected 1831, not a separate building               Attendance - morning 40, afternoon 32 scholars             John Sylvester, Clerk and Teacher
  • Saron Chapel, Independent             Erected 1825           Attendance - morning 64, afternoon 40 scholars, evening 64             William Edwards, Deacon
  • Llanwrin Chapel, Calvinistic Methodist              Attendance - average - morning 80, afternoon 85 + 51 scholars, evening 80              Thomas Thomas, Deacon
  • Sion, Calvinistic Methodist              Erected 1821             Attendance - morning 52 scholars, afternoon 135, evening 92              William Williams, Deacon, Brynmelyn, Llanwrin

    Church of St Gwrin, Llanwrin on the Montgomeryshire Churches Survey site

    Independent churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Saron

    Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian) churches on the Montgomeryshire Genealogical Society site - Cwmceirig

    Church, Llanwrin  - on the People's Collection Wales site

    Seion Chapel, Llanwrin  - on the People's Collection Wales site

    Rees, Thomas & John Thomas Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru   (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). The Llanwrin section (in Welsh) has been extracted - and translated by Maureen Saycell (Sept 2012)

    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