Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon (more correctly, "Ebenezer Baptist Church"), is a Baptist church in Port Talbot, Wales.[1] Built in 1881,[2] it is located in the Civic Square, where it is the only surviving building from the old Port Talbot town centre to have survived the wholesale demolition that preceded the construction of a new town centre during the mid-1970s;[3] the address was formerly "Talbot Street". It has been a listed building since 1980.[4]
| Ebenezer Baptist Church | |
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| Denomination | Baptist Union of Wales |
| Website | ebenezer-aberavon.org |
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| Minister(s) | Rev. Peter Davies, B.D. |
The building was designed in a "scarce Romanesque style" by George Morgan of Carmarthen, a noted architect of Baptist chapels,[5] and was built on the site of an earlier chapel, dating from 1836.[4]
Services at the church have traditionally been conducted in the Welsh language but both Welsh and English are used.[2] Located close to the civic centre, it is used by the local authority, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, for an annual carol service and other occasional events.[6]
References
edit- ^ "Ebenezer Baptist Church, Aberavon". Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ a b "West Glamorgan Archive Service – Ebenezer Welsh Baptist Church, Aberavon, Records". Archives Wales. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ "Historical Port Talbot – Timeline". Port Talbot Historical Society. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
- ^ a b "Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
- ^ Jones, Anthony (1996). Welsh Chapels. National Museum Wales. p. 87. ISBN 9780750911627.
- ^ "Neath Port Talbot civic carol service at Ebenezer Baptist Chapel". South Wales Evening Post. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2016.