Style: Classical
Architect: John Hartland of Cardiff (1906)
History: It is thought that the building was originally built as a coach house and stable to No. 6 Laura Place due to the wall on the right side of the buidling (which faces Castle Street), are whitewashed rubble walls with arch's which are blocked. The building was then used as the Estate office for Nanteos (a nearby manor house) which then moved to No. 11 Laura Place. The building was acquired in 1853 by the Quakers to use it as their meeting house, this is when it was given its chapel front. It then became Galloways bookshop before it moved to Pier Street. On 1 October 1906 the chapel came into posession of the Unitarians, who refronted the chapel as we see it today. On 14th March 1976, the chapel closed and was converted into a museum but by 1998 it had fallen into disuse. In 2011 renovations on the building began for it to become a residental property.
This chapel has the claim to being the smallest Nonconformist chapel in Wales, and is known for being the place of worship for David Ivon Jones, who was a key figure in the South African civil rights movement and the African National Congress.
Sources: Unitarian Historical Society, Genuki
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