No Baptist chapels found in this parish

Providence Congregational chapel, Bishopston
[on lane between Bishopston & Murton - on old-maps roughly SS58128900]   (JC 5)

• Providence English Congregational chapel, Bishopston              Opened in 1805      Not still open in 1992   (1)
• Here (Bishopston) is a Congregational chapel built in 1805  with 200 sittings               1910 (3)
• Providence Congregational chapel, Upper Killay                SS59029254          Built in 1807       (4)
• 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 Deric John

• The source book has references to Providence Chapel, including a photo, some explanation of the confusion about date of foundation ranging between 1803 and 1814, several pages of history, names of ministers etc. It closed during 1914-18 war and was taken over and renovated by the girl guides in 1932. It had a congregation of 30 in the morning and 40 in the afternoon in 1851 religious census. (From 'A History of Bishopston' by Geoffrey R Orrin,1982, Gomer press, Llandysul, ISBN 0 85088 507 8)  (JC 5)
• Providence Independent                 Erected in 1804              John Williams, minister                  1851      (8)

Upper Killay Congregational chapel

• There is a Congregational Chapel in Upper Killay, it looks an early 20th-century building - this chapel [built in 1911 according to the note below] is on Gower Road roughly opposite the junction with Hen Parc Lane.    Still active 2006   (JC 5)
• Gower Rd, Upper Killay, Swansea is shown on the list of current chapels on the  Congregational Federation site as being opened in 1911
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• There is a book; Upper Killay Congregational church, 1911-1961. Typescript. 19 leaves [Bishopston]     (2)

Lady Huntingdon's Independent chapel 

• Here (Murton) is an Independent chapel    Built in 1807 and endowed by Lady Huntingdon's connexion      1895  (2)    and   1910  (3)
   [Could it be same place as Providence ?  - although Kelly's have both entered]

Congregational Meeting House at Lower Wernllath

• ".. the house of Henry Griffiths of Bishopston, at Stone House, Lower Wernllath, was licensed to be a Congregational Meeting Place on 20th April 1672, one of 82 meeting houses licensed in Wales under the 'Declaration of Tolerance Act' of King Charles II. In 1675 Archbishop Seldon estimated that there were only 12 nonconformists in Bishopston."
  "Wernllath, a village in 16th century, is now only two farms, and there is no evidence how long the meeting place survived."
  (From 'A History of Bishopston' by Geoffrey R Orrin,1982, Gomer press, Llandysul, ISBN 0 85088 507 8,  page 62)  (JC 5)

Wesleyan Methodist chapel, Murton

• Methodist chapel, Murton    MI s       (6) & (7)
• Here (Murton) is a Wesleyan chapel                   1895  (2)   and  1910  (3)
• Murton Methodist Church on the Gower Methodists site - a brief quote from the history section;-
  " Murton first appeared on the Swansea Circuit preaching plan in 1828, though the first 'Chapel on the Green' was not built until 1831"  
• Murton Wesleyan                Erected 20 years                 Francis Morgan, Local Preacher               1851  (8)

• On the old-maps (1883/4) site there is shown a Primitive Methodist chapel just north of the then main street in Murton village, roughly where the above chapel is, this must be the first 'Chapel on the Green' built in 1831 but is not the same chapel as the one detailed on the first 2 lines above  (JC 5)

Murton chapel, Murton

• Murton chapel, Murton       SS58628905             Built in 1896   [?]   Denomination not given    (4)
  This OS grid reference seems very near to the above Wesleyan  chapel but not the exact same site

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