Tynycoed Cemetery

Tynycoed Chapel lies between Ynyswen and Penycae, near Ystradgynlais in the Upper Tawe Valley. It was first built in 1774 and rebuilt in 1829.

In 1914 the chapel celebrated the centenary of the ordination of its first minister, the Rev James Williams, and the paying off of its debt. In those hundred years it had only three ministers. The Rev Lewis Jones served Tynycoed and Bethlehem for 52 years before retiring in 1919. He came when many of his congregation walked to Seven Sisters and back for work each day, and often came to weeknight services in their working clothes because there was no time to wash.