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Date(s)
- 1845-1991 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
6 boxes (0.054 cubic metres)
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Name of creator
Administrative history
The Calvinistic Methodist cause in Newtown was started in 1804-05. The English cause was started after the decision in Wrexham in 1842 to establish English causes in the bilingual border towns from Chester to Newtown. The first English Calvinistic Methodist meeting house in Newtown was in Penygloddfa, where a church was built in 1845 on the corner of Chapel Street and Frankwell Street. Penygloddfa Chapel soon proved to be too small, and a new church, Crescent Chapel, was built in 1878 on the corner of Upper Bridge Street and Milford Road. [The Cadw website mistakenly bundles the two chapels together: "Built in 1845, modified, altered or rebuilt 1879, architect R. Owen of Liverpool"]. The church had 77 members and 64 children in 1853, 107 members in 1861, 173 in 1924, 179 in 1950, and 130 in 1980. According to the Presbyterian Church of Wales website, the chapel is still active in July 2005.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Mr David Peate; Newtown; Deposit; September 2004; 0200410463.
Content and structure area
Scope and content
Records of Crescent Chapel, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, including account books, 1845-1906, members' contributions, 1853-1980, member transfer certificates, 1867-1991, annual accounts and statistics, 1894-1980, annual reports, 1924-1984, and Sunday School records, 1927-1986.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
Accruals are possible.
System of arrangement
The records have been arranged into four series: building fund account books, 1845-1901, members' contributions, 1853-1980, other papers, 1845-1991, and printed material, 1852-1985.
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Conditions governing access
Readers consulting modern papers in the National Library of Wales are required to abide by the conditions noted on the 'Modern papers - data protection' form issued with their readers' tickets.
Conditions governing reproduction
Language of material
- English
- Welsh
Script of material
Language and script notes
Mainly English, one item partially Welsh.
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH
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Dates of creation revision deletion
July 2005.
Language(s)
- English
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Sources
Archivist's note
Compiled by Stephen Benham. The following sources were used in the compilation of this description: David Pryce, 'The history of the Calvinistic Methodist (Presbyterian) churches in the Montgomery and Salop borders from the beginning to circa 1942' (NLW: CMA 26486); the Crescent Chapel website, Presbyterian Church of Wales website, and Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales national monuments record (Coflein) (all viewed 29 July 2005);