Chapel Wales

The chapel we refused to let die.

Chapel Wales is restoring a historic chapel in Llanwrtyd Wells into an intimate home for music, culture and the next hundred years.

A chapel, a town, some music, some opinions.

Capel y Bedyddwyr, Llanwrtyd Wells, Powys

01 — The Story

Why this building, why now.

Wales built more chapels per head than almost anywhere in the world. Most of them have become houses or rubble. This one is becoming something else.

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02 — The Chapel

The building, the restoration, the future.

Built in 1877 for congregational singing. Stone walls, arched windows, a natural acoustic that most modern venues spend a fortune trying to manufacture.

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03 — The Journal

Where we think out loud.

Restoration updates, opinions about music, arguments we want to have in public, and recommendations for things we love. On Substack.

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Events

Events are coming.

When we start booking, you’ll hear about it through the journal first. Not through an algorithm. Subscribe.