Caeronnen
Address:
Caeronnen Unitarian Chapel
Cellan
LAMPETER
Ceredigion
Minister: Cen Llwyd
Secretary: Mrs. L Williams
66 Llanllienwen Road
Morriston
SWANSEA
Tel: 01792 772595
This chapel, in the village of
Cellan, has a long history stretching back to the days of Oliver
Cromwell and the persecutions of 1654.
A detailed history was written by the Rev. Oswald Williams.
One of the outbuildings of the present Caeronnen Farm was probably used
as a meeting place around 1685.
The congregation became Unitarian in the middle of the nineteenth
century after much controversy in the area and the building of the
nearby Congregational chapel, "Capel yr Erw", in the village at the
beginning of the century.
The present chapel is small and compact with a small
gallery and a cemetery.
In the cemetery is the grave of Sali Davies, a Deputy Headmistress at
the school in Lampeter, who refused to receive her State Pension
because the forms were not available in Welsh.
The old schoolroom used to be on the upper floor of the house which
stands next to the present chapel.