HistoryPoints News

Jan 7, 2021

Room on the farm for Cardiff Baptists


When Baptists began to worship in the St Mellons area of Cardiff in the early 18th century, the only suitable places for meetings were local farmhouses. Visiting preachers came from as far away as Abergavenny. After using a paupers' house for a few decades, the local Baptists ...

built their own Caersalem chapel in 1830. Fugitive American slave Moses Roper once gave a talk there about his experiences. For more information, use your smartphone to scan the HistoryPoints QR codes by the gateway of the current Baptist chapel, which dates from the 1880s. Or click here