Heol Awst Welsh Independent Chapel

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Capel Heol Awst is an Independent Welsh chapel in the town of Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Wales. The present building dates from 1826 to 1827, replacing a 1726 building which itself had been enlarged in 1802 and again in 1826 to seat a congregation of 1000. It is located on Lammas Street (Heol Awst), Carmarthen. It was designated as a Grade II* listed building on 19 May 1981.

Early history: The cause dates from 1726 but its origins are earlier and connected to the Puritan, Stephen Hughes (1622–88), known as the "Apostle of Carmarthenshire", who is said to have established a meeting house for Congregationalists in Lammas Street. After his death, William Evans of Pencader took over as the leading figure and he was followed by Thomas Perrott of Llanybri after this death in 1718. It was Perrott who instigated the building a meeting house where the chapel was later built. Around this time, a Presbyterian Academy was established in Carmarthen, and until 1840 the minister at Lammas Street was also senior tutor, or principal of the academy. David Peter, minister at Lammas Street from 1792 until his retirement in 1835, presided over the rebuilding of the chapel in 1802. By 1826 the building...