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Capel Y Graig, Water Street, Newcastle Emlyn, Carmarthenshire

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Name: Capel Y Graig

Denomination: Baptist

Established: 1668
Built: 1775
Rebuilt: 1821, 1846 and 1875

Photography: Dai Bevan
Date: 18 September 2007
Camera: Kodak Z7590 Zoom digital

Note 1: Graig Chapel was built in 1775 and rebuilt in 1821, 1846 and 1875. The date of the current chapel is 1875, built in the Classical style of the gable entry type. [Source: Coflein Database (NPRN: 6251)]

Note 2: Possibly by C. J. Davies & Son, replacing the chapel of 1846 by Davies. Handsome pedimented front in stucco with long arched windows, and a big pedimented columned porch. [Source: The Buildings of Wales: Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion, by Thomas Lloyd, Julian Orbach, & Robert Scourfield, Yale University Press, New Haven and London, 2006; ISBN 0-300-10179-1]

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30/10/2020
Date originally created:
31/12/1969
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