Built: 1878 - 1880
Style: Classical
Architect: Walter Thomas of Liverpool
Cost: £5900 (it was first anticipated at a cost of £2250)
History: This chapel was built on the site of the Jolly Sailor's public house, and was built for the Welsh Wesleyans who were at first situated in Salem chapel, Queen Street, however they decided that they required a newer, larger, and grander chapel, due to the increasing numbers of the congregation.
The foundation stone was laid on Thursday 31 October 1878 at 1:30 by D. Davies
Renovations: A schoolroom was added in 1903, at a cost of £1400
The chapel closed in 1992, and throughout the construction of the chapel a glass bottle was discovered in 1999 behind one of its foundation stones.
![A glass bottle used as a 'time capsule' by the founders of the new Welsh Wesleyan Chapel, Aberystwyth, 1878 [image 1 of 2]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_swP94Zp2tyI4CYLI5rK2hYA3Ga_v64-BLsiksb-X9HaKt1t5EfGYj93fA5IliVnt63th7KiOZko-zXM3HVdeL8OpkvWrtGXLkDb79i1b_VPBGzJ-yDLMn3w3YCxxBCwbwp=s0-d)
Inside the bottle there were various items which related to the chapel's opening such as the poster (shown above), a list of chapel trustee's and the newspaper "Y Winllan" which was the monthly Wesleyan magazine, and was published in Welsh.
Nowadays, the chapel is a pub known as "The Academy" or "Yr Academi" and the schoolroom now houses the pool tables.
Sources: Royal Commission on the Ancient and Hisotrical Monuments of Wales: Coflein
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