Yorath Cemetery
Cwmgiedd, Ystradgynlais
Yorath Chapel, Cwmgiedd
Religious meetings in Cwmgiedd can be traced back to 1739. In 1740 Howell Harris, one of the pioneers of the Calvinistic Methodist Revival, preached in the area, and the hymn writer William Williams, Pantycelyn, also visited.
The first Yorath Chapel was built in 1806. It was too small within 18 years, so a bigger chapel was built in 1824, and the chapel that stands today was built in 1858, with a new porch added in 1954. Yorath was the first Methodist chapel in the Swansea, Amman and Dulais Valleys, and celebrated its 150th anniversary in September 1956.
"On the wall there is a fine electric clock of modern design but the pews are as they were a century ago - narrow and straight backed and witness to the powers of endurance and concentration of congregation that would sit and listen to two consecutive sermons, each of an hour's length."
Read the full history at ystradgynlais-history.co.uk
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