Old Carmel Chapel Cemetery
Abercrave
Carmel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, Abercrave
Carmel Calvinistic Methodist Chapel in Abercrave was built in 1897. The Rev Robert Beynon served the chapel through the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. He was a well-known poet and one of the leading lights in bringing the 1954 National Eisteddfod to Ystradgynlais, but he died in 1953 and did not live to see it.
The chapel was demolished in 2007. Its cemetery contains a number of war graves and remembrance graves from both World Wars, among them Corporal David John Samuel of the Welsh Regiment, who died of pneumonia in July 1918 and was brought home to be buried at the chapel where he had been a faithful member.
"Heartiest congratulations are tendered to the Rev Robert Beynon, B. A., pastor of the Carmel C.M. Chapel, who has had no less than three eisteddfod successes during the week, winning the chair for the poem in each."
Read the full history at ystradgynlais-history.co.uk
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