Hall Street

This English-speaking Wesleyan chapel was built by an architect named James Wilson from Bath, who was the husband of Maria Buckley. The chapel, said to be a beautiful specimen of the Gothic style of architecture, has an exterior resembling a church rather than a dissenting place of worship. The interior was fitted with every regard to comfort, beauty and taste. The pulpit was neat and pretty, and the effect of the beautifully stained glass windows was splendid and cathedral-like.

The chapel was opened at Llanelli in May 1856, when an excellent and very impressive sermon was delivered by the popular preacher, the Revd John Rattenbury of London. William Bythway presided at the organ and a very large and highly respectable congregation attended, with a great number of strangers present from Swansea and Carmarthen. A collection was made when it was announced that another service would take place in the evening and the opening services would continue for two successive Sundays, when various ministers would preach.

According to John Innes – in 1896 John Mead left £2,000 to Hall Street English Wesleyan Chapel for completing the tower and other purposes. The tower was finished and the freehold of part of the chapel and schoolrooms purchased with the money.