We use cookies on this site to enhance the user experience. You can follow the link provided here to tailor your experience, or accept all and continue on this page.
Mynyddbach Chapel is situated at the end of a lane that leads west from Llangyfelach Road, between Treboeth and Llangyfelach. It was a Welsh Independent chapel and was built in its rural location in the 1760s, although the congregation had been meeting in local farmhouses since the 1640s. In the course of time, Swansea and its suburbs expanded northwards and members of Mynyddbach Chapel went on to found a number of daughter churches in places as far afield as Swansea, Landore and Gorseinon.
The chapel closed in 2011 and was threatened with demolition, but has been saved through the efforts of a local group and is in the process of being converted into a heritage centre. It is known as the Calon Lân centre. The chapel's records are held at West Glamorgan Archives.
These two rolls of honour were drawn by Ivor Stanley Rees. He was a mechanical draughtsman in the tinplate works and lived in Bartley Terrace, Plasmarl. The first roll of honour, measuring 49 x 67 cm, contains the names and full regiment details of 19 men who went to fight, but it seems probable that so many men from the chapel joined up subsequently that it was clear that it would not be big enough to take all the names. It was abandoned, and a new one was drawn up, containing less detail, but more space for names. This one measures 50 x 77 cm and lists 60 names in all, including one woman, Eunice Thomas, who was a member of the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps. The names of three men are framed in black to indicate that they died.
