Cwmgelli Cemetery

As far back as October 1888 Swansea Corporation and the rural sanitation authority had earmarked Cwmgelli as the site for a public cemetery. The Corporation purchased a total of 19 acre of land but only 8 acre were used for laying out the cemetery, the remainder was let for farming. The cemetery site was enclosed by stone walls and had space for 6,950 burial plots. Cwmgelli Cemetery was formally opened by Alderman W. H. Edwards on 19 September 1895. The Swansea Journal and South Wales Liberal newspaper noted the land sloped "rather suddenly" from west to east and described the internal roads as a "series of curves, which have the double effect of minimising the gradient, and at the same…

The cemetery covers approximately 8 acre. The cemetery chapel was built in the Gothic style, with sandstone dressings and a red tiled roof. The date 1895 appears over the round-arched doorway in the porch. By 1996, the building had been converted to another use. In 2020, the cemetery was reported to have no remaining burial spaces.