GENUKI: Penmaen - chapels database

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Penmaen

Chapels database

This project is fully described on Glamorgan Chapels Database

This Penmaen database compiled by Gareth Hicks with contributions from;

Jeff Coleman
Mary Steele

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 Gareth's Help Page )

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

Sources;

1. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1895 - the Archive CD Books Cd
2. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1910 - the Archive CD Books Cd
3. The Chapels Recording Project in Wales (RCAHMW)
4. Glamorgan FHS - the publications lists etc
5. Personal research/knowledge (JC)
6. Jones, I.G. & Williams, D. The Religious census of 1851 : A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales. UWP, Cardiff, 1976

Additional source

Slaters Directory for 1880

Baptist

No Baptist chapels found in this parish

Congregationalist

Emmanuel/Immanuel Independent chapel, Pilton Green

There is a congregational chapel at Pilton Green ( Penrice) 1895 (1) and erected in 1821 with 300 sittings 1910 (2)
Emmanuel Independent chapel (Immanuel), Pilton Green, Rhosili SS44808701 Built in 1821, modified, altered or rebuilt in 1874 (3)
Immanuel Ind (Hamlet of Paviland) Erected in 1821 William Johnson Ford, Minister, Immanuel Chapel House 1851 (6)
There is an entry under Penmaen parish on Slaters Directory for 1880 referring to 'a chapel for dissenters at Pyle Well and I see on old-maps that Pylewell is the name of a farm (?) next to this chapel (Immanuel Chapel, Independent). The directory also shows the Rev David Edwards as minster at Emmanuel chapel in 1880
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

Glamorgan FHS - the publications lists have an MIs entry for Gower Calvinistic Methodist (?) chapels which appear to include Immanuel, Pilton Green (in the description on Genfair at least) (4)

Pilton Green chapel is thought to have closed in the 1980s, used to be an arrangement that whoever was preaching at Pitton Methodist in Rhossili stopped at a cottage opposite Pilton Green chapel to pick up the Pilton Green organist to play in Pitton, then took her home again after the service. Pilton Green chapel may well have been turned into a private house in the last few decades. (JC5)

Although sources (1) and (2) include Pilton Green chapel/village within Penrice parish, the Kain/Oliver map shows it just within the *detached* part of Penmaen parish.
For anyone who thinks it should actually be in Rhosili parish, the old-maps page has a notation
'Penmaen (detached) Included since 1880 in the civil parish of Rhossili'
(And Genuki deals in ancient parishes of course)

Methodist

No Methodist chapels found in this parish

Other (inc un-identified)

None

[Last Updated : 1 March 2008 - Gareth Hicks]

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