CMA: Records of Ebenezer Chapel, Old Walls, Llanrhidian Lower,

The fonds comprises two marriage registers, 1922-1946 and 1948-1961, of Ebenezer Chapel, Old Walls, Llanrhidian Lower.

Old Walls Chapel, Llanrhidian, was erected in 1813 prior to the formation of a local Society 'formally united with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'. In 1824, William Griffiths, the 'father' of Calvinistic Methodism in Gower, was invited by Lord Barham to become the minister of Old Walls Chapel, and he remained there until his death in 1861. In 1852, Old Walls Chapel was rebuilt.
Old Walls was without a minister between 1937 and 1950, when the four North Gower Chapels were linked together in a single pastorate. With the closure of Zion Chapel in 1971, Old Walls, Burry Green and Trinity Chapels formed the surviving pastorate which was subsequently enlarged to five chapels with the addition of Zion, Crofty in 1985 and Tabernacle, Penclawdd in 1990. The Chapel forms part of the Swansea and Gower District in Glamorgan Presbytery West.

The marriage registers have been arranged chronologically at NLW into two files.

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The Rev. Tudor Lloyd; Burry Green, Gower, Swansea; Deposit; June 2001

Old Walls Chapel, Llanrhidian, was erected in 1813 prior to the formation of a local Society 'formally united with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'. In 1824, William Griffiths, the 'father' of Calvinistic Methodism in Gower, was invited by Lord Barham to become the minister of Old Walls Chapel, and he remained there until his death in 1861. In 1852, Old Walls Chapel was rebuilt.
Old Walls was without a minister between 1937 and 1950, when the four North Gower Chapels were linked together in a single pastorate. With the closure of Zion Chapel in 1971, Old Walls, Burry Green and Trinity Chapels formed the surviving pastorate which was subsequently enlarged to five chapels with the addition of Zion, Crofty in 1985 and Tabernacle, Penclawdd in 1990. The Chapel forms part of the Swansea and Gower District in Glamorgan Presbytery West.

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

February 2003.

Compiled by Alwyn J. Roberts. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Ebenezer Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Old Walls 1823-1998 : one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary 1998 (The Presbyterian Church of Wales, 1998);

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