Aberdare on Wikipedia.

All photos © Gerard Charmley.

The ruined Bethania Calvinistic Methodist Church (1853). Gerard advises that the local council has served a compulsory purchase order on the building, and a search turned up this document (warning - large pdf file), which says that the intention is to turn it into flats.

Calfaria Baptist Church, one of Aberdare's oldest chapels.

Elim Church was originally the Sunday School for Bethesda Primitive Methodist Church, which stood on the grassed site to the front.

English Methodist Church, originally Wesleyan (1859).

Highland Place Unitarian Church.

The former Nazareth Calvinistic Methodist Church, now a builders' merchants.

Old Meeting House, © unitarian.co.uk. This, and many other old engravings on this website, are reproduced from the downloadable books on the Unitarian Church Headquarters website here. The books are Pictures of Unitarian Churches by Emily Sharpe (1901) and the 1914 edition of Nonconformist Church Architecture by Ronald P. Jones M.A, (Oxon), and the images are reproduced by kind permission of James Barry of Unitarian Church Headquarters. My appreciation also to Mike Berrell for his efforts in this regard.

St. David (Presbyterian) was built by a group from Trinity Welsh Presbyterian Church, who joined the English Presbyterians.

St. Elvan (CiW), the present parish church. Link.

The original parish church was St. John the Baptist (CiW). Link.

St. Joseph (R.C.).

Salvation Army Citadel.

Siloa Welsh Congregational Chapel.

The former Soar Wesleyan Methodist Church, now a youth centre.

Trinity Welsh Presbyterian Church.