Identity area
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Title
Date(s)
- 1922-1961 / (Creation)
Level of description
Fonds
Extent and medium
0.009 cubic metres (2 vols).
Context area
Name of creator
Administrative history
Old Walls Chapel, Llanrhidian, was erected in 1813 prior to the formation of a local Society 'formally united with the Welsh Calvinistic Methodists'. In 1824, William Griffiths, the 'father' of Calvinistic Methodism in Gower, was invited by Lord Barham to become the minister of Old Walls Chapel, and he remained there until his death in 1861. In 1852, Old Walls Chapel was rebuilt.
Old Walls was without a minister between 1937 and 1950, when the four North Gower Chapels were linked together in a single pastorate. With the closure of Zion Chapel in 1971, Old Walls, Burry Green and Trinity Chapels formed the surviving pastorate which was subsequently enlarged to five chapels with the addition of Zion, Crofty in 1985 and Tabernacle, Penclawdd in 1990. The Chapel forms part of the Swansea and Gower District in Glamorgan Presbytery West.
Archival history
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
The Rev. Tudor Lloyd; Burry Green, Gower, Swansea; Deposit; June 2001
Content and structure area
Scope and content
The fonds comprises two marriage registers, 1922-1946 and 1948-1961, of Ebenezer Chapel, Old Walls, Llanrhidian Lower.
Appraisal, destruction and scheduling
Accruals
Accruals are possible.
System of arrangement
The marriage registers have been arranged chronologically at NLW into two files.
Conditions of access and use area
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
Usual copyright laws apply.
Language of material
Script of material
Language and script notes
English.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements
Finding aids
A hard copy of this list is available in CMA: Records of Welsh Chapels in NLW 2001-.
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Existence and location of copies
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Rules and/or conventions used
This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) Second Edition; AACR2; and LCSH.
Status
Level of detail
Dates of creation revision deletion
February 2003.
Language(s)
- English
Script(s)
Sources
Archivist's note
Compiled by Alwyn J. Roberts. The following source was used in the compilation of this description: Ebenezer Calvinistic Methodist Chapel. Old Walls 1823-1998 : one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary 1998 (The Presbyterian Church of Wales, 1998);