Records of Mynydd-bach Chapel, Swansea

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Records of Mynydd-bach Chapel, Swansea, 1761-1996, including Church registers and record books; Account books; Sunday School; Band of Hope; Memoranda; Legal papers; Letters; Miscellaneous papers; Photographs; Rolls of Honour; Trust deeds for Mynyddbach Chapel; Minutes; Adroddiadau blynyddol (annual reports); Records relating to membership; Graveyard records; Financial records; Records relating to church premises and property; Records relating to ministers; Commemorative items; Records relating to burials in Mynyddbach Chapel Cemetery.

Administrative / Biographical History

Mynydd-bach chapel, Llangyfelach, is the oldest Independent chapel in the Swansea area. It began when a piece of land was leased in 1761 at Tirdoncyn-newydd near Llangyfelach and a chapel built there shortly afterwards. In 1867 a new chapel was built and was extensively renovated in about 1930. A large number of other chapels began life as offshoots from Mynydd-bach, including Ebenezer, Gorseinon; Siloh, Landore; and Ebenezer and Henrietta Street chapels, Swansea. Many of these newer chapels did not have burial grounds and their burials tended to take place at the extensive cemetery at Mynydd-bach. The Rev. James Davies (1875-1948) was a minister at Mynydd-bach.

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It is the policy of the West Glamorgan Archive Service to withhold the names of depositors.

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Compiled by Rhys Jones for the ANW project. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: West Glamorgan Archive Service, Nonconformist - Independent - Records Of Mynydd-Bach Chapel, Swansea, catalogue.