27 Frogmore Street
About the Building | Recent History | Previous Occupiers | Other Information
| Address: | 27 Frogmore Street |
| Present Occupier: | Demolished and replaced by Tesco Metro store |
| Present Owner: | |
| Ground Floor: | |
| Other Floors: | |
| Date when first used by present occupier: |
About the Building
Abergavenny Chronicle printing works 1937-1960 was demolished for the erection of Tesco’s. The Frogmore Street Baptist church and Sunday School, or Memorial Hall, right, was demolished in 1979 to enlarge the supermarket and some of the gravestones can be seen at the rear of the building. The chapel was built in a simple round-headed style with a gable entry. (RACHMW record 2010) See more information about the chapel below.
To the rear of no 26 Doug Jones Ltd ran a garage, but Tesco’s built a new building there and ran it as a Garden Centre.
See sketch plan
Recent History
1971, 1972, 1973: Emlyn Uphosterers
1968: Emlyn Upholsterers, 3 piece suites etc., (based in Newport) new shop September 1968
1964: with no 26, Chronicle Office
1962: M Morgan & Co Ltd, The Chronicle Office new extension
1937 – 1960s Abergavenny Chronicle, printing works at rear. Demolished to build Tesco’s
1947 Abergavenny & District Co-op Society: shop & lecture hall (Rate book)
Previous Occupiers
| Year | Name | Detail | Source |
| 1970 | see recent history | ||
| 1937 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Established 1871 Residence of Edward Straker |
Kelly |
| 1934 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1930 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Car/Npt & Dis | |
| 1926 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1923 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1920 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1914 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1910 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1906 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | H Morgan & Co Ltd | Kelly |
| 1901 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | H Morgan & Co Ltd & W H P Scanlon | Kelly |
| 1895 | Abergavenny Chronicle & Monmouthshire Advertiser | Kelly | |
| 1891 | Miss M Morgan | Printer, bookseller | Kelly |
| 1741 | Prop: William Humphries | The Boot (only mention of this Public House) | Pigot |
Other Information
Here you say the church school room belonged to the Methodist (Wesleyan) church, this is incorrect. It was part of Frogmore Street Baptist Church (now Abergavenny Baptist Church), the building that was used prior to the current building being built in 1877.
The history of the Baptist Church is quite interesting. I have booklet that was produced in 1978, from a centenary celebration, detailing the history of the Baptist in Abergavenny (attached photos see below).
I’ve grown up in ABC (was at Bethany Baptist, in Market Street, but was only 2yrs old when the two churches joined together in 1990) and now work here as the children’s worker. [Info provided by Rhian Auty]
The information above was kindly supplied by Rhian Auty.
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