Church Micro 9816...Burry Green. Traditional Cache
Church Micro 9816...Burry Green.
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Another in our series of Church Micros in the South Wales area.
Not within the Church precincts, so please don't search in the grounds.
On street parking available nearby, area can be busy so stealth will be required,
BYOP and tweezers
Just over two hundred years ago, in February 1813, a noble lady came to visit Swansea, apparently by accident. Diana, Baroness Barham had left her home in Kent, to visit her married daughter in Somerset. However when she reached Bristol, she received a letter – her visit would have to be delayed for a fortnight. Her ladyship, not knowing how to spend this time, consulted a map, and Swansea came to her attention. While in Swansea she met Reverend Mr Kemp, Minister of the Countess of Huntingdon’s Chapel. He often preached in Gower, so with him she travelled around the peninsula and became very concerned at the spiritual destitution of the people. When the time came for her to leave Swansea and continue her journey, she remembered the darkness she had seen in Gower and felt sure that she could do something to help the people there if she went to live amongst them.
Nine months later Lady Barham returned to Gower and settled at Fairy Hill (now an expensive Hotel and Restaurant) a mansion in beautiful surroundings near Burry Green, Soon after her arrival at Fairy Hill she made enquiries into the ‘religious condition of the district’ and found that a few Christian believers were preparing to set up a small Meeting House on the edge of the Green, just a quarter of a mile from her new home. After talking with them she found that she and they held views in common, and she asked if they would allow her at her own expense to erect a considerably larger building than they had proposed, and a Manse as well. This was Bethesda Chapel as we now know it and its Manse (at one time called Barham House).
Trinity Chapel many years ago
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