Bethlehem Chapel (Cong), Pwll-trap near St Clears. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

Interior of St David’s church, Glascombe. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

P.B. Abery, ca. 1910s.

Revd J B Thomas and Mrs Thomas and family, St Clears. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

The cathedral, St Davids. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1885.

Soar y Mynydd, the most remote chapel in Wales. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1955.

Dydd Gwŷl Dewi Sant hapus i bawb!

Here’s more information about Saint David’s Day from the National Museum Wales.

Image: Celebrating St David’s Day in Barmouth by LlGC ~ NLW on Flickr. Geoff Charles, 1960.

[St. Peris Church, Llanberis, Wales] (LOC) by The Library of Congress on Flickr. Photochrom postcard by Detroit Publishing Co., ca. 1890s.

Centenary of Capel Deunant, Aberdaron. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1960.

The Reverend W. R. Williams, Llangwyllog, who wrote a book on beekeeping to raise money to repair his church. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1964.

Matson Photo Service, Welsh tablet of Lord’s Prayer on Olivet, ca. 1940-46. Source: Library of Congress.

Detroit Publishing Co., photochrom postcard, ca. 1890s.

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Tintern Abbey.

[Guardian angels (stereograph)]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

John Thomas, ca. 1875.

Maesyronen chapel. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr. P.B. Abery, ca. 1910s.

Here’s some more information about the chapel—“one of Wales’s shrines of Nonconformity,” located near Hay-on-Wye, in Powys—from the Landmark Trust:

The chapel itself, converted from a barn in 1696, dates from the early vernacular days when any suitable building was made use of for enthusiastic worship. Although officially founded just after the Act of Toleration, it had probably been used for secret meetings before that, which explains its isolated position. Its simple layout and furniture, added as and when the congregation could afford it, follows the basic pattern that prevailed for the next two centuries. It has high box-pews and a higher pulpit, lit from behind by a window, and all of a plainness that fully conveys the essentials of this new and radical rural faith.

[Rhiwlas children’s Christmas pageant]. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

Geoff Charles, 1962.

The screen, Llananno church, Radnorshire. Source: LlGC ~ NLW (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru/National Library of Wales) on Flickr.

P.B. Abery, ca. 1910s.