Dear Listers,
Further to Sylvia Morgan's enquiry about Hermon Baptist Chapel, Nantyglo,
I've now found the burial yard on Google Maps. As I indicated, it is located
behind the medical centre. The medical centre fronts onto Queen Street,
while the burial yard is alongside Ffosmaen Road.
The Google satellite image of the area is at
http://tinyurl.com/32jn594
showing the burial yard to be quite extensive.
You can see both the burial yard and the medical centre using Google's
StreetView facility.
Kind regards,
John Ball
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From: "John Ball" <john(a)jlb2005.plus.com>
Sent: Monday, September 27, 2010 10:45 AM
To: <monmouthshire(a)rootsweb.com>
Subject: Re: [MON] Hermon chapel Nantyglo
Sylvia Morgan <sylviamorgan3(a)sky.com> wrote:
Is this chapel still there in Nantyglo.? It was where one of my
ancestors(Amelia JONES) married William BALDWIN way back in 1864. Sylvia
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Dear Sylvia,
I'm afraid Hermon Baptist Chapel was demolished in 1987, and a medical
centre was erected on the same site. The wall of the medical centre bears a
commemorative plaque on which is written:
ON THIS SITE STOOD
HERMON BAPTIST CHURCH
1820 - 1987
When I visited the site in September 1998, the chapel burial yard was still
there, although heavily overgrown, located behind the medical centre. Town
councillor John Mason told me (in 1998) that the council was trying to get
permission to 'landscape' the graveyard, but this would involve
repositioning the gravestones. He said they were having difficulty because
all the known relatives and descendants had to be contacted to give their
permission, and ". . .many have gone to America".
I do not know whether the council's plan was ever implemented.
Kind regards,
John
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