Cwmsychbant

Cwmsychbant is a small village in the community of Llanwenog, Ceredigion, Wales, on the A475 road. Cwmsychbant is represented in the Senedd by Elin Jones (Plaid Cymru) and the Member of Parliament is Ben Lake (Plaid Cymru).[1][2]

Cwmsychbant
Cwmsychbant
Location within Ceredigion
OS grid referenceSN 4773 4611
• Cardiff61.6 mi (99.1 km)
• London179.6 mi (289.0 km)
Community
Principal area
CountryWales
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townLlanybydder
PoliceDyfed-Powys
FireMid and West Wales
AmbulanceWelsh
UK Parliament
Senedd Cymru – Welsh Parliament

Unitarian chapel

The Capel-y-Cwm Unitarian chapel was built in 1906. Coflein, the online database of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales, describes it as being in the "simple round-headed style of the gable entry type".[3] The gable front is painted stucco.[4] It was the last Unitarian chapel to be built in South Wales to fill a need for the congregation who had previously been meeting in a storeroom above a shop. The chapel is in a rural setting and has a cemetery beside it. The interior of the chapel has a small gallery at the back, and there are two attached halls in which functions can take place and where the Sunday School can meet.[5]

Notable people

Evan James Williams FRS (1903-1945), physicist, was born and buried in Cwmsychbant. His house is marked by a plaque erected by the Institute of Physics.[6]

References
  1. National Assembly for Wales Website; accessed 24 February 2014
  2. https://members.parliament.uk/member/4630/contact
  3. "Capel-y-Cwm Welsh Unitarian chapel, Cwmsychbant". Coflein. Royal Commission on the Ancient Monuments of Wales. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  4. Thomas Lloyd; Julian Orbach; Robert Scourfield (2006). Carmarthenshire and Ceredigion. Yale University Press. p. 537. ISBN 0-300-10179-1.
  5. "Capel-y-Cwm". Unitarians: South Wales District Association. Retrieved 12 May 2016.
  6. John Davies; Nigel Jenkins; Menna Baines (2008). The Welsh Academy encyclopaedia of Wales. University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-7083-1953-6.


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