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St John's Church

Dowlais Parish Church
 

The      Dowlais Parish Church  was built in 1827 by the most successful iron-master of his generation, John Josiah Guest, who is buried inside the Church. In an iron coffin.

            The Church was well known for its unusual historic stained glass window, dedicated to the coal-mining industry, ‘The Miners Window’, which was funded by the Martin family. Inside the Church there are a large number of memorials, many to great figures of the Industrial Revolution, who were employed by the prestigious Dowlais Iron-Works. In recent years the Church became far too large for a diminishing elderly congregation and a problem with insurance cover led to its closure in 1997 and it was then sold to Nazir Mohammed. The original parish records are in the Glamorgan Record Office in Cathays Park, Cardiff, and the facsimile copies in Dowlais Library, which is next to the Church.

           Carolyn Jacob.

 

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St. John's Parish Church, Dowlais.

(Postcard courtesy of Mrs Gill Thomas, West Grove)

 
St. John's Church Interior - From the Chancel Steps

 

Interior view of Parish Church Dowlais.

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St. John's Church Playgroup - 1969c.

The playgroup used to meet in the St. John's Church Hall.

(Photograph Courtesy of Huw Williams)

 

 

Dowlais - St. John's Church Hall - 1977.

Back Row L - R:         Jennifer Thomas (rectors wife, holding child), Megan Mold (from Rectory Close), Gaynor Mold (daughter of Megan).

Front Row L - R:         Freda Winsor, Mrs Winnie Lynch, Susan Winsor (child).

(Photograph Courtesy of John Winsor)

 

 

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