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  • This statue of the Rev. Thomas Charles (1755-1814) by William Davies (Mynorydd) was unveiled in 1872. It stands outside the Calvinistic Methodist chapel in the town of Bala. Thomas Charles was one of the most prominent leaders of the Methodist movement in Wales. He settled in Bala in 1783 and is perhaps best known for his circulating Sunday school system and his role as one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804). He was responsible for editing the Society's first Welsh Bible and up to his death in 1814 he published and distributed some 320,000 books to his scholars.
Statue of the Rev. Thomas Charles (1755-1814), Bala
  • This memorial was erected in 1921 by the Sunday Schools of Merionethshire. The inscription on the memorial reads as follows: 'In memory of Mary Jones, who in the year 1800, at the age of 16 walked from here to Bala, to procure from the Rev. Thomas Charles, B.A., a copy of the Welsh Bible, this incident was the occasion of the formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society. Erected by the Sunday Schools of Merioneth'.
Memorial to Mari Jones, Llanfihangel-y-Pennant, Merionethshire
  • The first printed collection of the hymns of Ann Griffiths (1776-1805) with the preface by Thomas Charles (1755-1814), published at Bala in 1806. From the former Welsh Library of the University of Wales, Lampeter.
A Collection of Ann Griffiths' hymns, 1806, title page [image 1 of 3]
  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. Thomas Charles was one of the most prominent leaders of the Methodist movement in Wales. He was a native of Carmarthenshire but settled in Bala in 1783 and is perhaps best known for his circulating Sunday school system and his role as one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804). He was responsible for editing the Society's first Welsh Bible and up to his death in 1814 he published and distributed some 320,000 books to his scholars.
Pilgrimage of the Welsh Presbyterian Church to Bala, to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Charles, 13 October 1955
  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. Thomas Charles was one of the most prominent leaders of the Methodist movement in Wales. He was a native of Carmarthenshire but settled in Bala in 1783 and is perhaps best known for his circulating Sunday school system and his role as one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804). He was responsible for editing the Society's first Welsh Bible and up to his death in 1814 he published and distributed some 320,000 books to his scholars.
Pilgrimage of the Welsh Presbyterian Church to Bala, to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Charles, 13 October 1955
  • Photographed by Geoff Charles. Thomas Charles was one of the most prominent leaders of the Methodist movement in Wales. He was a native of Carmarthenshire but settled in Bala in 1783 and is perhaps best known for his circulating Sunday school system and his role as one of the founders of the British and Foreign Bible Society (1804). He was responsible for editing the Society's first Welsh Bible and up to his death in 1814 he published and distributed some 320,000 books to his scholars.
Pilgrimage of the Welsh Presbyterian Church to Bala, to celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Thomas Charles, 13 October 1955