Bethany Chapel, Cardiff

[Jessica1989]

Hello!
I currently work in House of Fraser Cardiff, and I'm really interested to find out more about the original buildings that make up the store.
Theres a lot of original features still in store and theres a few stories about them but I was wondering if you had found out anymore information as I'm struggling to find anything.
Also, I would love to see the photos of those headstones!

Thanks

[wdytya]

Have you an email address I can send the photo to?

[Jessica1989]

http://archiveshub.ac.uk/features/0704howell.html

If you email them and give the reference  HF 124, the lovely lady might be able to send you some information they have in Glasgow Uni.
I cant send the file on here its too big.

jessicachandler@hotmail.co.uk

Thanks!

[Jessica1989]

@tbirduk

I think they buried people there, theres a crypt somewhere in the building, and apparently if there was any major disturbance to it, it would have to be blessed before any work could go ahead... but were not allowed there, cant think why!

[tbirduk]

Thanks but I contacted Cardiff County Council and they confirmed that as wdytyanoidea suspected the Rev.  W E Winks and hs wife were buried in Cathays, and a week later they kindly sent me a photo of the monument which certainly save me from a long drive 

[hanes teulu]

Western Mail, May 12, 1884
OPENING OF A NEW ORGAN AT BETHANY CHAPEL

A very handsome new organ which has been erected in Bethany Baptist Chapel, St Mary Street, was opened on Sunday morning. The instrument was built by Messrs Peter Conacher & Co of Springwood, Huddersfield, and cost £500. It stands on a gallery which was constructed especially for it in the apse at the eastern end of the chapel, immediately behind the pulpit. The gallery was built by Messrs Jones and Bros at a cost of £150 ...........

regards

[hanes teulu]

The Western Mail, Friday, April 20, 1894

Renovation of Bethany Chapel Cardiff

".................... the whole of the work, including some additions to the organ, is estimated at £200 ......................."

regards

[Janealogy]

Whilst scouring the Welsh Newspapers on line I found this interesting article.

...The memorial stone was a large slab of freestone, which was lowered into its place by pulleys, immediately over the keystone of the arch surmounting the principal entrance to the
new chapel, facing St. Mary-street. The walls had already been erected to a corresponding height. M. GRIFFITHS, in presenting a silver trowel to Mr. Hopkins, stated that he had been
selected to lay the foundation stone as being the only surviving member of the church from its formation. He read the inscription on the trowel, as-follows Presented to
Thomas Hopkins, Esq., on the occasion of the laying of a memorial stone in the New Bethany Chapel, Cardiff, August 16th, 1861; he being the sole surviving member of the church at its
formation, and now in the 85th year of his age, and the 57th of his deaconship, and the 58th of his membership.

 Mr. Hopkins then, taking the trowel, proceeded to lay the stone in its place, and to give it the customary taps with a mallet after which the workmen completed the job of fixing it in its place.

Mr. Barry meanwhile had placed in a recess formed in the stone a glass jar containing the following articles Carte de visite portraits of the Revs. W. Jones, A. Tilley, and R. Griffiths, Messrs. J. Edy,
T. Hopkins, T.Rees, sen., D. Jotham, J. T. Barry, T.Jenkins, T. Rees, jun., T. Price, David James, Thomas Jones, R. Benjamin, T. Tiist, R. Evans, and Mr. W. P. James and P. Price, the builders of the chapel.
A copy of the Cardiff Times and of the Cardiff News of May 27th, 1864, containing a report of the closing service in the old chapel; Cardiff Times of October 23, 1863, with a report of the Sunday School Jubilee,
Cardiff Express of August 16, 1864; The Times, August 16, 1864; The Freeman, August 10, 1864; Baptist Magazine, August, 1864; Baptist Messenger, August, 1864 and The Church, August, 1864.
A printed list of the members for 1863; an admission ticket in connection with the recognition services of the Rev. Rees Griffiths; and a document prepared by Mr. Griffiths, containing a sketch of the
history of the rise, progress, and formation of the church......

 

Cardiff Times 18th Aug 1864

If you read the article there is a mention of burials

I'm chasing an ancestor who was a builder in Cardiff - a newspaper report on his death mentions he was the builder of the Tabernacle in Cardiff - I'm eliminating the Chapels one by one!!