Capel Bryn Du
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Capel Bryn Du
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 3 Nov 2008
This Calvinistic Methodist chapel was built in 1901. It is the fourth chapel to occupy the site, the first having been built in 1793, the second in 1814 and the third in 1860. The present chapel was built to seat 500 people and is a Grade II registered building. A manse and a caretaker's house were added to the site. It was in the 1793 chapel that John Elias, the High Calvinist and High Tory, nicknamed the "Anglesey Pope", who dragooned the Anglesey Calvinists with threats of excommunication and eternal damnation to oppose both the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1831 and the 1832 Reform Act, preached his first sermon on the island. He must have been spinning in his grave at Llanfaes when, during WWII, the brethren invited an evacuated Liverpool Roman Catholic Primary School to use the chapel on a daily basis for the duration of the war. Image
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Image Location
Latitude
53.226295
Longitude
-4.480822