Carmel, Penrhiwceiber is an Independent chapel in
Penrhiwceiber
Penrhiwceiber is a small Welsh village and community (and electoral ward) in the county borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf that lies south of the town Aberpennar and north of the village of Tyntetown, and is one of many villages that lies within th ...
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Glamorgan
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Wales
Wales ( cy, Cymru ) is a Countries of the United Kingdom, country that is part of the United Kingdom. It is bordered by England to the Wales–England border, east, the Irish Sea to the north and west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the ...
. Services at Carmel were conducted in the
Welsh language
Welsh ( or ) is a Celtic language family, Celtic language of the Brittonic languages, Brittonic subgroup that is native to the Welsh people. Welsh is spoken natively in Wales, by some in England, and in Y Wladfa (the Welsh colony in Chubut P ...
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Early history
The history of the church can be traced to the 1870s when prayer meetings and Sunday Schools were held in various chapels locally.
Plans to open the first chapel were agreed on 12 November 1880 and the chapel was built over a matter of months and opened on 9 July 1881.
Robert Thomas, a native of
Ffestiniog
Ffestiniog () is a community in Gwynedd in Wales, containing several villages, in particular the settlements of Llan Ffestiniog and Blaenau Ffestiniog. It has a population of 4,875.
History
Ffestiniog was a parish in Cantref Ardudwy; in 1284 ...
, was minister from 1882 until 1905, when he died aged 52.
Thomas was active in public life and spent twelve years as a member of the Pontypridd Board of Guardians.
The chapel has suffered from subsidence caused by mining subsistence. This was later rectified by the
National Coal Board
The National Coal Board (NCB) was the statutory corporation created to run the nationalised coal mining industry in the United Kingdom. Set up under the Coal Industry Nationalisation Act 1946, it took over the United Kingdom's collieries on "v ...
.
The chapel remains open.
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External links
Entry at British Listed BuildingsEntry at COFLEIN
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Chapels in Rhondda Cynon Taf
Grade II listed churches in Rhondda Cynon Taf