CMA: Records of Zoar Chapel, Wenvoe

The fonds consists of a register of baptisms, 1860-1928, for Zoar Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Wenvoe.

Zoar Chapel, otherwise known as both Soar and Walston Chapel was built in 1832, and registered as Zoar Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in 1835, but some graves predate the registration. Originally the language of the chapel would have been Welsh. The chapel was closed in July 1970, but for some time had shared a pastor with Mount Pleasant Church, Ely, Cardiff.

Arranged at NLW into one file.

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Deposited by the Rev. Glaslyn Bowen, Aberdare, per the Rev. J. E. Wynne Davies, Aberystwyth, July 2003.; 0200308212

Zoar Chapel, otherwise known as both Soar and Walston Chapel was built in 1832, and registered as Zoar Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in 1835, but some graves predate the registration. Originally the language of the chapel would have been Welsh. The chapel was closed in July 1970, but for some time had shared a pastor with Mount Pleasant Church, Ely, Cardiff.

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A hard copy of this list is available in CMA: Records of Welsh Chapels in NLW 2001-.

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October 2003.

Compiled by Hywel Gwynn Williams. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: Induction Programme for Rev. John Lewis Evans as minister for both Mount Pleasant, Ely, Cardiff and Walston, Wenvoe; Ian Moody and Wenvoe History Group, Wenvoe Past & Present: Local History and Descriptive Walks Around the Village and Surrounding Area, Wenvoe, c. 2000; NLW 'Capeli' database;

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Action: All records deposited at NLW have been retained..

Accruals are not expected.

Various financial records, 1953-1970, are in NLW, CMA EZ1/42/1-4. Correspondence relating to the closure of Zoar Chapel are in NLW, CMA DZ3/1/2.

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