D/D W/Bap 19: Bethesda Baptist Church, Swansea

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BETHESDA WELSH BAPTIST CHAPEL, HIGH STREET, SWANSEA

An important chapel in the history of the Baptist movement in Swansea, Bethesda was built on its present site in 1831, and extensively rebuilt in 1879. It closed in 1994.

Registers

<D/D W Bap 19/1> Marriage register. 1900-1908
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/2> Marriage register. 1908-1915
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/3> Marriage register. 1915-1920
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/4> Marriage register. 1920-1930
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/5> Marriage register. 1930-1940
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/6> Marriage register. 1940-1942
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/7> Marriage register. 1942-1969
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/8> Marriage register. 1971-1977
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/9> Membership and contributions register (marked 'no 1'). 1856-1864
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/10> Membership and contributions register (marked 'no. 2', 'West side – Centre pews') . 1856-1864
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/11> Membership and contributions register (marked 'no. 3', 'West side – side pews') . 1856-1864
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/12> Membership and contributions register (marked 'Dos^th 5' [class 5] on cover, and 'no. 4' inside). 1861-1878
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/13> Membership and contributions register (marked 'Dos^th 3' [class 3] on cover). 1864-1874
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/14> Sunday School Register (including Sunday School minutes 1944-1950). 1934-1950
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/15> Sunday School Register. 1950-1974
[1 vol.]

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<D/D W Bap 19/16> Sunday School Register. 1970-1974
[1 vol.]

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Constitution Roll Book

<D/D W Bap 19/17> Constitution Roll Book, recording names of members of the chapel, their occupation, address and age. Dates are occasionally given to the entries, and the book appears to begin in the 1860s.. n.d., 1860s-1880
[1 vol.]

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Annual Report

<D/D W Bap 19/18> 'Eglwys Bethesda, Abertawe: adroddiad am y flwyddyn 1974', giving a list of members and their addresses. 1974
[1 booklet, Welsh and English]

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Financial records

<D/D W Bap 19/19-21> Note books giving details of financial contributions received as a result of the appeal for funds to reduce the debt caused by repairs to the chapel in 1879. 1889-1894
[3 booklets]

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Programmes for musical celebrations (Cymanfaoedd Canu)

<D/D W Bap 19/22-30> Rhagleni Cymanfaoedd Canu eglwysi perthynol i Gymanfa Bedyddwyr Gorllewin Morgannwg (programmes for musical celebrations). 1967-1991
[9 booklets]

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<D/D W Bap 19/31-34> Programmes for musical festivals of the Presbyterian Churches on Gower. 1966-1982
[4 booklets]

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Other records

<D/D W Bap 19/35> Typed history of Bethesda and the Baptist cause in Swansea, by the Rev. M. J. Williams, prepared on the closure of Bethesda. 6 July 1994
[3 papers]

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<D/D W Bap 19/36-38> Orders of Service for funerals of Mrs Muriel Lake, died 20 Sept. 1969, Margaret Ann Bevan, died 28 Apr. 1986 and E. Aubrey Davies, died 25 July 1989. 1969-1989
[3 cards]

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<D/D W Bap 19/39> Bundle of posters advertising annual meetings of Cymdeithas Genhadol y Bedyddwyr (the Baptist Missionary Society) and Mudiad Chwiorydd Gorllewin Morgannwg (the West Glamorgan Sisters' Movement). 1974-1988
[8 papers]

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<D/D W Bap 19/40> Examples of Sunday School contribution envelopes and receipts. n.d.
[2 envelopes, 4 papers]

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<D/D W Bap 19/41> Photograph of the minister, former minister and deacons of Bethesda Baptist church, including John Jones, Thomas Griffiths, William L. Davies, George Price, David Griffiths, William Jones, Benjamin Thomas, John Lake, the Rev. E. Edmunds, the Rev. David Price. Thomas Davies, David H. Thomas and T. W. Jones. n.d., c. 1900
[1 photograph]