Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon

Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon (more correctly, "Ebenezer Baptist Church"), is a Baptist church in Port Talbot, Wales.[1] Built in 1881,[2] it is located in the Civic Square, where it is the only surviving building from the old Port Talbot town centre to have survived the wholesale demolition that preceded the construction of a new town centre during the mid-1970s;[3] the address was formerly "Talbot Street". It has been a listed building since 1980.[4]

Ebenezer Baptist Church
DenominationBaptist Union of Wales
Websiteebenezer-aberavon.org
Clergy
Minister(s)Rev. Peter Davies, B.D.

The building was designed in a "scarce Romanesque style" by George Morgan of Carmarthen, a noted architect of Baptist chapels,[5] and was built on the site of an earlier chapel, dating from 1836.[4]

Services at the church have traditionally been conducted in the Welsh language but both Welsh and English are used.[2] Located close to the civic centre, it is used by the local authority, Neath Port Talbot County Borough Council, for an annual carol service and other occasional events.[6]

References
  1. "Ebenezer Baptist Church, Aberavon". Ebenezer Chapel, Aberavon. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  2. "West Glamorgan Archive Service – Ebenezer Welsh Baptist Church, Aberavon, Records". Archives Wales. Archived from the original on 27 April 2016. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  3. "Historical Port Talbot – Timeline". Port Talbot Historical Society. Retrieved 14 April 2016.
  4. "Ebenezer Chapel, Port Talbot". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 15 April 2016.
  5. Jones, Anthony (1996). Welsh Chapels. National Museum Wales. p. 87. ISBN 9780750911627.
  6. "Neath Port Talbot civic carol service at Ebenezer Baptist Chapel". South Wales Evening Post. 11 December 2012. Retrieved 15 April 2016.

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