Another in our series of Gower Church Micros, park at the Public House, £2.00 for 3 hours, at the far left corner of the car park is the start of the walk to the Chapel.
The path gets muddy so wellies or walking boots are advised.
These ruins are the western portion of a small, rectangular chapel, known as Trinity Well chapel, dating from the late Middle Ages and built, like many similar Catholic chapels, to honour the well and water supply. According to a strong tradltion, but one which receives no clear confirmation in surviving contemporary documents, at some stage – perhaps between 1660, when Miles lost his living and therefore the use of the parish church, and 1663-4, when the congregation broke up or was suppressed – Miles and his colleagues used either this pre-Reformation chapel or a small, crude building erected next to it as a Baptist meeting house. If so the site, although used by the Baptists only briefly, would have considerable historical significance.
The words on the plaque shown in the iamage are as follows: ‘To commemorate the foundation in this valley of the first Baptist church in Wales 1649-60 and to honour the memory of its founder John Miles. This ruin is the site of the pre-Reformation chapel of Trinity Well and is claimed by tradition as a meeting place of the above Cromwellian church.’
Co-Ords were tricky to get due to tree cover therefore a better clue is given, if anyone can supply more accurate Co-Ords we will update them, best to fire up your GPS's before leaving the car park so it can acquire satellites.
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