Carrying on with the requested look at Merthyr’s lost chapels, here is the next batch – the lost chapels of Penydarren.
Elim Welsh Baptist Chapel
North Street, Penydarren
Built 1842. Rebuilt 1858. Demolished 1978
Horeb Welsh Independent Chapel
Church Street, Penydarren
Built 1839. Rebuilt 1853, 1909. Demolished 1973
*A new chapel was built in 1974
Mount Pleasant English Baptist Chapel
Lloyds Terrace Penydarren
Built 1902. Demolished ?
Noddfa Welsh Baptist Chapel
Garden Street, Penydarren
Built 1896. Demolished ?
Radcliffe Hall Forward Movement English Presbyterian Chapel
High Street, Penydarren
Built 1905. Demolished 1976
Williams Memorial Congregational Chapel
Brynheulog Street, Penydarren
Built 1906. Demolished 2003
Very interesting. My parents were members of Noddfa Chapel and my father was the last secretary and organist in the 1940/50s. A family relative was minister of the chapel following death of minister who was her husband in the early 20th century
I was a member of Elim Chapel after Sunday School in Noddfa closed. Diolch yn fawr
Horeb is still an active chapel with services held every Sunday 11am. It will be celebrating 50 years of worship in the ‘new’ building on 13th Nov 2025.