Chapels - Knelston

This project is fully described on Glamorgan Chapels Database

This Knelston database compiled by Gareth Hicks with contributions from;

• 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 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. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1895 - the Archive CD Books Cd
• 3. Kelly's Directory, South Wales 1910 - the Archive CD Books Cd
• 4. Glamorgan FHS - the publications lists etc
• 5. Glamorgan Record Office in Cardiff hold most extant parish church and non-conformist chapel records, these are listed on their site (click 'history of your family' on main page and scroll down to the end of the next page)
• 6. Slaters Directory for 1880

Baptist

• Providence Baptist chapel, Llan-y-Tair-Mair, Knelston SS46718895 Built in 1858 (1)
  [Not sure where Llan-y-Tair-Mair comes into it, 'Baptist chapel' is shown in the middle of the small village of Knelston on the 1884 old-maps site]
• "There is a Baptist chapel" 1895 (2) and - "erected in 1858 with 130 sittings" 1910 (3)
• 'Killay and Knelston Baptist chapel' MIs on the Glamorgan FHS publications lists (4) and Glamorgan Record Office (5)
• "There is also a chapel belonging to the Baptists" Slaters Directory for 1880 (6) and the Rev Silvanus Jones is shown as minister there in 1880 (6)

• Providence Baptist church Knelston on the-gower.com site

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

• Providence Baptist Church, Knelston, Records " ...... including deeds and other legal papers, 1911-1979; church accounts, 1934-1972; trustee correspondence, 1935-1964; documents relating to Christy Davies, 1946-1949; records relating to the Chapel Centenary, 1858-1958; illustrations, 1932-1950s; and miscellaneous church documents, 1880-1970."

Congregationalist

No Congregationalist chapels found here

Methodist

No Methodist chapels found here

Other (inc un-identified)

None

[Last Updated : 18 April 2007 - Gareth Hicks]