| Churches/Chapels in the Valley, some gone, some empty and some still lived
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Primitive Methodist Church, West Bank Cwmtillery
See and read about the Primitive Methodist Church West Bank, Cwmtillery. Click here to enter
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Methodists worshipped in a building erected on West Bank
in 1872, which later closed due to subsidence. It was replaced by the West Bank
Primitive Methodist Church building which was erected in 1913. This would
continue to support the community until it was demolished in 1972.
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Blaenau Gwent Baptist Church |
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Blaenau Gwent Baptist Church, Victoria Street, Cwmtillery, Abertillery NP13 1PG.
This church has great historical significance, it is the
second oldest functioning Baptist church in Wales and
was founded in 1660.
It is featured in a mosaic in the pedestrian tunnel for
crossing the A467.
Visit Blaenau Gwent Baptist Church, Victoria Street. for more details.
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| Zion and the Red Brick Chapel |
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Wesleyan, by the Post Office East Side. |
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The religious needs of the
miners were first catered for by the Nonconformist in the rapidly growing
industrial valley. Baptist were cared for by the Blaenau Gwent church at the
extreme southern end of the existing parish, later on "Zion" was built at the
top of Crook Hill.
In 1906 a breakaway group of Primitive
Methodists left West side and amalgamated with the Bible Christians.
On the
East Side there was a single storey stone chapel for the "Bible Christians",
this building was enlarged into the "Red Brick" chapel.
There was also a
"Wesleyan building on the East Side, which in recent years has been used as a
boys club and changing rooms for local sports events. |
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