Callwen Cemetery

Callwen Church is in the Upper Tawe Valley, opposite the Dan Yr Ogof National Showcaves of Wales. Heading towards Sennybridge and Brecon, it is on the right-hand side of the road, after The Gwynne Arms and before the Tafarn Y Garreg.

There had been a chapel at Callwen for a long time before the present church was built. It was rebuilt in 1840 and again in 1892-3, and grew a large congregation from the workers who came to the quarry and brickworks at Penwyllt. It became a vicariate in its own right in 1894 and had three vicars before 1957, when it was joined to the benefice of Abercrave.

In the 1980s or 1990s Capel Coelbren was added to form the parish of Cwmtawe Uchaf, which lasted until the reorganisation of the Church in Wales in 2016.