Soar, Hirwaun was a Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Station Road,

Hirwaun Hirwaun is a village and community at the north end of the Cynon Valley in the County Borough of Rhondda Cynon Taf, South Wales. It is NW of the town of Aberdare, and comes under the Aberdare post town. At the 2001 census, Hirwaun had a populati ...

Aberdare Aberdare ( ; cy, Aberdâr) is a town in the Cynon Valley area of Rhondda Cynon Taf, Wales, at the confluence of the Rivers Dare (Dâr) and Cynon. Aberdare has a population of 39,550 (mid-2017 estimate). Aberdare is south-west of Merthyr Tyd ...

, Wales.

History

The church at Soar dated from 1805, when the Hirwaun ironworks were in operation, and early meetings were held in a barn before the first chapel was built in 1824 In 1837 the first chapel was converted into cottages and a new chapel built at a cost of £550, with seating for 260. Rent from the cottages was used to support the church. David Davis, grocer and owner of the London Warehouse, was instrumental in the building of the 1837 chapel. He later became a prominent coal owner in the Cynon and Rhondda valleys. The chapel was rebuilt in 1886 and opened by

Frederick Lewis Davis Frederick Lewis Davis (30 January 1863 − 17 May 1920) was a Liberal politician and a member of a notable family of coal owners in South Wales. His grandfather, David Davis, Blaengwawr was a pioneer of the coal trade in the Aberdare valley while h ...

, grandson of David Davis. The chapel closed in 1977. The members moved to the English Wesleyan chapel in Hirwaun.

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* {{coord, 51.7400, -3.5103, display=title, type:landmark Chapels in Rhondda Cynon Taf