This small cross marks the site of Capel Newydd (New Chapel), Blaenavon’s earliest known place of Christian worship. The chapel dates to medieval times but little is known about its history. Local legend says it was built by some maidens from Varteg. Sermons continued to be held there in Welsh until the 1860s, when it was finally abandoned. Stone from the chapel was used to build St Paul’s Church in 1893, which also contains a Welsh Bible, the chapel key and stone altar from Capel Newydd.
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