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Welcome to Wesley Place (Bethel) Methodist Church
Methodism was brought into Beaufort in the late 18th Century by immigrant workers at the Beaufort Ironworks, as the village was known originally, this probably explains why the tablet above the door states that it is an ‘English Wesleyan’ chapel. Bethel began as a single chapel and schoolroom building in 1832 at the side of a tram road conveying coal to the furnaces of the iron works. In 1851 the chapel was added (as shown in the old print, circa 1890) and the original building became a schoolroom used for Sunday School, and as a British School for several years. Additional classrooms and toilets were added in 1927 to give the building its existing appearance.
Sunday services are held at 11.00 am and membership numbers twenty two. There is no Young Church, but there are good connections with the community through a Ladies Club, which meets on the first and third Tuesdays every month, and the Ebbw Vale Branch of the Gwent Family History Society which meets on the second and fourth Thursdays of the month.
How to find and contact us
| Location: Wesley Place Beaufort, Gwent NP23 5JS | View The Gwent Hills and Vales Methodist Circuit in a larger map |
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| Directions: | Approach from the North:- Leave the A465 at the roundabout and follow sign A4046 for Ebbw Vale, after 0.25 miles turn left to follow A4047 for Brynmawr, go ahead at the mini roundabout, passing the Rhyd y Blew Inn on the left and St David’s Church on the right; note the stone pillar on your left bearing the title ‘Beaufort’. 300 yards after the pillar turn left at the Post Office into Wesley Place; the chapel is on the left. Just before the Post Office, on the left, is a small parking area which can be useful because Wesley Place is often congested Approach from the South:- Follow the A467 to Aberbeeg roundabout and then the A4046 through Ebbw Vale, do not exit after the multi-storey car park but continue past Tesco on the left; at the black/white chevron roundabout take the third exit to pass the school and college on the left, and the hospital on the right. At the junction turn right onto the A4047 and proceed as above. |
| Minister: | Mr Les Jones Phone: 01495 740483 |
Services
| Sunday - 11am |
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