Chapels - Baglan

This project is fully described on Glamorgan Chapels Database

This Baglan database compiled by Gareth Hicks

If a chapel is already mentioned on the main parish page then its name will act as a link to that section for any data recorded there - such as extant records and OS Grid references

Some chapels may have more than one entry if it is not possible to correctly identify each from a particular source

(For an explanation of the various non-conformist denominations see Wales - Genealogy Help Pages )

Sources referred to (indicated by number shown in brackets after the data entry) where there may be more data available

Sources;

• 1. The Chapels Recording Project in Wales (RCAHMW)
• 2. Dissent in the Counties of Glamorgan and Monmouth by Hywel D Emanuel, National Library of Wales journal, Vol VIII/4, Winter 1954.
• 3. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1895 - the Archive CD Books Cd
• 4. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1910 - the Archive CD Books Cd

Additional source

• West Glamorgan Archive Service

Baptist

• 1817, December 22; Baptist; a dwelling house called Tynytwod .... (2)

Bethel Welsh Baptist chapel, Oakwood (Tonmawr)

• Bethel Welsh Baptist chapel, Oakwood 1895 (3)

Congregational

Shiloh Independent

• 1833, June 4; Independent; a house called Shiloh....... (2)

Bryn Seion Congregational chapel, Tonmawr

• There is a congregational chapel in Tonmawr 1895 (3)
• There is a congregational chapel in Tonmawr, erected in 1847 with 350 sittings 1910 (4)
• Bryn Seion Independent chapel, Tonmawr SS80259637 Built in 1847, modified, altered or rebuilt in 1883 (1)

• Bryn Seion Chapel, Tonmawr: chapel history, 1947 Held at West Glamorgan Archive Service
• Rees, Thomas & John Thomas. Hanes Eglwysi Annibynnol Cymru (History of the Welsh Independent Churches), 4 volumes (published 1871+). Here is the entry for this chapel (in Welsh) - with translation by Maureen Saycell (April 2009)

Details of extant records on Archives Network Wales for the following;

• Typescript history of Bryn Seion Chapel, Tonmawr, 1947

Methodist

Bethel Calvinistic Methodist chapel, John St, Ton-mawr

• Bethel Calvinistic Methodist chapel, John St, Ton-mawr SS80119648 (1)

Other (including unidentified)

Shiloh, Protestant

• 1833, June 6; Protestant; a house called the Shiloh.... (2)

[Last Updated : 11 April 2009 - Gareth Hicks]