Former Unitarian Chapel

Image: © Richard Croft Taken: 27 Jun 2015

Fascinating little grade II listed building on New Street, originally a coach house and stable to 6 Laura Place built c1810. In 1853 it became the Quaker Meeting House and later a bookshop before acquisition by the Unitarians in October 1906 when John Hartland of Cardiff added the façade. In March 1976 the chapel closed and it became a museum until 1998, followed by disuse before restoration in 2011 to its current use as a house. It has two claims to fame as the smallest Nonconformist chapel in Wales and former place of worship for David Ivon Jones http://www.sahistory.org.za/people/david-ivon-jones who was a key figure in the South African civil rights movement and the African National Congress, recognised on the plaque below the centre window.

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