Welsh Calvinistic Methodists formally separated from the Church of England. This event contributed significantly to the vast majority of Welsh worshipers being of Nonconformist denominations.

Image: A portrait of Thomas Charles, a prominent Welsh Calvinistic Methodist Minister from the early nineteenth century. This image was first published in the September 1798 edition of Evangelical Magazine and is in the public domain in the United States because its copyright has expired. Courtesy of Cardiff University: http://www.anngriffiths.cardiff.ac.uk/images/2.jpg

Articles

Matthew Jones, “On Nineteenth-Century Welsh Literacies, and the ‘Blue Book’ Education Reports of 1847”