St David's Church, Abercrave
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St David's Church, Abercrave
Image: © Jaggery Taken: 29 Aug 2011
Viewed across the A4067. The Church in Wales parish website states that St David's, Abercraf (or Abercrave) is the most recent, but also the largest, of three church buildings in the Parish of Cwmtawe Uchaf. The area of Abercraf was, until the present church was built, part of the parish of Ystradgynlais, with a small chapel of ease (now disappeared) at the southern end of the village. The population growth of both Ystradgynlais and Abercraf led to the decision to set Abercraf aside as a separate parish with its own church building. The present building, with its spacious churchyard, was built and opened in 1912 to serve the growing population of Abercraf and has a seating capacity of over 200. The church is dedicated, like so many in Wales, to St David. It is built mainly of granite with bath-stone decorations, although a large part of the tower is built mainly with bath-stone, which, though beautiful, weathers quickly in the high rainfall of the Swansea Valley.
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Image Location
Latitude
51.801945
Longitude
-3.696767