Английская Википедия:Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot
Шаблон:Infobox church Holy Cross Church, Port Talbot, also known locally as the "Chapel of Ease", is a Victorian church located centrally in the Taibach district of Port Talbot, Wales.[1] Prior to the building of the M4 motorway flyover through the centre of the town in the 1960s, it was in the centre of a residential area, but it is now dominated by junction 40 of the motorway.[2] The land was originally donated by C. R. M. Talbot, MP, the owner of the Margam Abbey estate, as a church for local people who could not get to the abbey itself to worship.
The church was built in 1827[2] by the Shrewsbury architect Edward Haycock Sr., with William Bruce Knight as its first vicar,[3] and fell within the parish of Margam, as a chapel of ease to Margam Abbey.[4] It had a capacity of 500.[2]
After the building of St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot, Holy Cross became a subsidiary of the new parish of Taibach.[5] In 1903 Holy Cross was upgraded, with G. E. Halliday as architect, to bring it up to the standard of a parish church,[2] and a rood screen was added.[6]
The parents of the actor Anthony Hopkins were married at the church in 1936.[7]
Closure
The church closed at the end of December 2008 after part of the ceiling collapsed. It was declared redundant by the Archbishop of Wales, Barry Morgan, in 2009.[2]
The cemetery contains several war graves in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.[8]
A proposal to turn the church into a private residence met with opposition from those with relatives buried in the churchyard. It was then proposed to convert the building into a chapel of rest instead.[9] The chapel was taken over by a local funeral director in 2016.[10]
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