Historic churches · Mid Wales
Maesyronnen Chapel
Maesyronnen Chapel in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 30 min–1 h
About
Maesyronnen Chapel is a place of interest in Wales Mid, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Maesyronnen Chapel is about 1 mile (2 km) north of the village of Glasbury, Powys, Wales (grid reference SO176410). It is designated by Cadw as a Grade I listed building. The chapel is one of the earliest Nonconformist chapels to be built in Wales, and is the only chapel existing from that time to be largely unchanged and still in use as a chapel. It is currently administered by the United Reformed Church. The attached ccaretaker's cottage is also listed at Grade I.
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Background
History
In 1689 the Act of Toleration granted Nonconformists freedom to worship in their own buildings without certain legal strictures that had formerly applied. Maesyronnen Chapel was one of the earliest buildings in Wales to be created for this purpose. It was developed from an existing longhouse (a farmhouse with an attached cattle-shed), the cattle-shed being converted into a chapel and the farmhouse used by the caretaker. The conversion took place in the 1690s, either in 1691 or in 1696 97. It was registered as a chapel in 1697 and was used by a congregation which had been meeting in secret in a barn nearby since the 1640s. The chapel was built on land given by Charles Lloyd, squire of…
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- Coordinates
- 52.0621, -3.2025
- Established
- 1640
Sources
- wikidata: Q6729371 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Maesyronnen Chapel (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Maesyronnen Chapel?
- Maesyronnen Chapel is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.0621°, -3.2025°.
- When was Maesyronnen Chapel built?
- Maesyronnen Chapel dates to 1640.