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Mumbles Baptist Church

Situated on 'Broadway':

The church is situated on the junction of Newton Road and Langland Road, at one end of what is known as 'Broadway' and more can be found in our article, Life on the Broadway of Mumbles

The Baptist Church was still situated, solely at Bethany Church, West Cross, until on 21 July 1907, the Glamorgan English Baptist Association (Swansea District . . . 'Arranged a series of Sunday services at the Kusaal (on the site of the present Oyster Wharf), in order to find out whether a Baptist Church was needed in the village'.

The founding members continued to meet in the Kursaal until 10 November 1907, when they moved to the Council School, where they remained until their new Church, being built on the corner of Newton and Langland Roads, built on the land known as Pool Close, was ready.

The laying of the Foundation Stone, 1908/9

The official opening by Lord Glantawe

The official opening by Lord Glantawe took place on 16 June 1910. T. B. Cook officially opened the Chapel Doors and Mrs. Walks, the Schoolroom doors. Mrs. Gwen Milsom remembers her as a tiny-waisted, straight-backed, lady in a long black skirt and a black bonnet.

Bronwyn Morgan, Vera Morgan, Laurence Tucker, Richard Slocombe and Egbert Williams were the first children to be baptised there. Its first marriage took place on 21 June 1911 between William Seymour Superintendent of the Norton Mission and Miss Mary Louisa Hughes, daughter of Mr and Mrs. David Hughes, the organist of the Church.

Sometimes on a sunny, summer, Sunday afternoon, the children of the Sunday School, were taken to Rotherslade Bay, where they made pictures of biblical scenes using seaweed, pebbles and sticks.