Has that Chapel already been torn down? Such a quaint little chapel, too. I hope John Ball has captured it on film. I hate progress! Marita Begin forwarded message: > From: Jill Muir via <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [GLA] FW: Fw: Not Glam but could be of interest > Date: July 22, 2015 at 10:32:47 AM PDT > To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> > Reply-To: Jill Muir <jill@shottle.plus.com> > > Thanks Jeff for this information. For those with people likely buried at > Gilwern, see here. The names of the buried are shown on this site. > > http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/13489223.Human_remains_and_memorial_wi > ll_have_to_be_moved_to_make_way_for_dualling_scheme/ > > Jill > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > > A web site has been prepared to help you use the Glamorgan List > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~glamorgan/ > > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ukwales2/hicks.html > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dear Listers, I believe the graveyard under threat is that attached to Gilwern Primitive Methodist Chapel, situated at grid reference SO24281429 on the north side of the present course of the A465 Heads of the Valleys Road. Google StreetView provides a recent (2011) image of its forlorn condition, as seen from the A465. See: http://tinyurl.com/nhmzrz4 The South Wales Argus has another photo, showing the eastern end of the former chapel. See: http://tinyurl.com/o2snw6e Coflein, the online database of the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, provides the following description: "Gilwern Methodist Chapel was built in 1838 in the Vernacular style, with a gable entry plan and walls of sandstone rubble. By 2001 this chapel stood disused with the interior gutted and vehicle entrances inserted to the centre of the main gable-end and right-hand walls. (NPRN 11513)" See: http://tinyurl.com/o444q3x Unfortunately, I've never photographed the chapel or its graveyard. Although I've driven past it lots of times over a period of 40 years, I've always assumed it was an old warehouse. I never realised it was once a chapel! I'll try to get to the site in the next week or two and take some shots before it's too late. If successful I'll add them to my online 'Welsh Churches and Chapels Collection' and notify the mailing lists in the usual way. Of course, if any of you visits the site before me, I'd be very grateful to receive copies of your photos as a contribution to my webpages. Kind regards, John -------------------- John Ball, Brecon, Mid-Wales, UK E-mail: john@jlb2011.co.uk Personal Homepage: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk Images of Wales: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/walespic/ Welsh Family History Archive: http://www.jlb2011.co.uk/wales/ Blog: http://johnofbrecon.com Webmaster, Breconshire Local & Family History Society http://www.blfhs.co.uk/ GENUKI Breconshire Maintainer: http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/BRE/ Administrator - Powys RootsWeb mailing list -----Original Message----- From: Marita Ulrich via Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 7:52 PM To: Glamorgan L L Subject: [GLA] Fwd: Fw: Not Glam but could be of interest Has that Chapel already been torn down? Such a quaint little chapel, too. I hope John Ball has captured it on film. I hate progress! Marita Begin forwarded message: > From: Jill Muir via <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> > Subject: [GLA] FW: Fw: Not Glam but could be of interest > Date: July 22, 2015 at 10:32:47 AM PDT > To: <glamorgan@rootsweb.com> > Reply-To: Jill Muir <jill@shottle.plus.com> > > Thanks Jeff for this information. For those with people likely buried at > Gilwern, see here. The names of the buried are shown on this site. > > http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/13489223.Human_remains_and_memorial_wi > ll_have_to_be_moved_to_make_way_for_dualling_scheme/ > > Jill