(Leaning) Gatepost Memorial Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church, Chapel Lane, Cwmbran 6 September 2012
Memorial to Philip Hill 1883-1970 for a "lifetime service to this church".
The Conways opened two tinplate works on the Avon Llwyd river in Cwmbran in 1800 and 1806, the latter, at the bottom of Chapel Lane surviving into the twentieth century. Concerned for the spiritual welfare of their workers, they started running services in a room at the Chapel Lane works. They funded a chapel here up the hill from their Chapel Lane works in 1815, but in 1836 funded this impressive church on the same site.
For a picture of the surviving cedar:
www.flickr.com/photos/16498755@N07/8046629900/in/photostream
(Leaning) Gatepost Memorial Pontrhydyrun Baptist Church, Chapel Lane, Cwmbran 6 September 2012
Memorial to Philip Hill 1883-1970 for a "lifetime service to this church".
The Conways opened two tinplate works on the Avon Llwyd river in Cwmbran in 1800 and 1806, the latter, at the bottom of Chapel Lane surviving into the twentieth century. Concerned for the spiritual welfare of their workers, they started running services in a room at the Chapel Lane works. They funded a chapel here up the hill from their Chapel Lane works in 1815, but in 1836 funded this impressive church on the same site.
For a picture of the surviving cedar:
www.flickr.com/photos/16498755@N07/8046629900/in/photostream