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Moriah Baptist Chapel, Clifton Terrace, Port Talbot, Aberafon

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Moriah Baptist Chapel,

Clifton Terrace,

Port Talbot, Aberafon

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Church History

The approximate map location is that of Clifton Terrace which is within Aberafon parish

These notes are repeated from the Chapels page where sources are shown

  • 1822, October 24; Baptist; a new building called Moriah Chapel (1)
  • There is an entry (under Causeway etc) for Moriah chapel in the book index Images of Neath & Port Talbot by David Roberts
  • Also at Swansea Archives D/D LE 222 in the Mr. Leslie Evans Collection - which should be the first place to look for anyone doing any Family or Local History research in the Port Talbot Area - there is a very good index to his collection there (9)
  • Capel Moriah, Clifton Terrace, Aberavon. Port Talbot Guardian 27th Jan.1961; Notice given of the removal from Moriah Chapel's attached graveyard of the remains of 28 named persons owing to the M4 construction. They were re-buried at Goetre, Port Talbot. This chapel was small in size measuring only 34ft 6 ins by 24ft 6ins. After the Baptists moved out to Ebenezer in 1839 it was used by Independents, then a Welsh Sunday School, also by Bible Christians, Primitive Methodists, Roman Catholics, Wesleyans, and English Baptists (9)

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  • The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
    • Morria Shapel, Later Day Sintes, Aberavon "Formerly a Baptist chapel but of late rented to the Latter Day Saints" Signed George Lewis, Registrar. Wm Howell, Elder (11)
    • The next entry in the 1851 return is missing but "Mormonite according to the Registrar's preliminary list" (11)
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Maps

It was located somewhere in the place at SS765904 (Lat/Lon 51.598707, -3.784887). You can see this on maps provided by:

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