Heol Awst Welsh Independent Chapel

The cause dates from 1726 but its origins are earlier and connected to the Puritan, Stephen Hughes (1622–88), known as the "Apostle of Carmarthenshire", who is said to have established a meeting house for Congregationalists in Lammas Street. After his death, William Evans of Pencader took over as the leading figure and he was followed by Thomas Perrott of Llanybri after this death in 1718. It was Perrott who instigated the building a meeting house where the chapel was later built. Around this time, a Presbyterian Academy was established in Carmarthen, and until 1840 the minister at Lammas Street was also senior tutor, or principal of the academy. David Peter, minister at Lammas Street from…

The chapel was built in 1826 and 1827 by William Owen of Haverfordwest and is considered the finest chapel of its kind in the area. The exterior is plain with a big, hipped roof. There are two arched windows above two Iconic doorways. The interior is spacious, broad and well-fitted, with a single deep gallery. The box pews are neatly fitted and there is a most unusual pulpit; this is shaped like a wine-glass with a curved flight of steps. A similar pulpit is to be found in the nearby Capel Heol Dŵr, which was built in 1831, but they are rare elsewhere having disappeared when alterations and enlargements were made to chapels. Tabernacle Chapel, Llandovery, built in 1836, has a similar broad…