86) St. John The Baptist Church, Glyncorrwg

Glyncorrwg is a small community in the valley of the River Corrwg, quite close to  Cymmer. Up until the 1970s it was very much a coal mining community, but since the decline of the industry, and a lot of people left the area to seek work elsewhere. Since the 1990s when the local community decided to take advantage of the local scenery and complemented it with a series of ponds along the narrow valley, and there’s a growing leisure industry based around mountain biking, canoeing and fishing.

As for St. John the Baptist, well, I haven’t been able to find out when the current church was built, but there’s been a church in the community for centuries. One suggestion for the derivation o the name Glyncorrwg suggests that it may be derived from St. Curig.

I like this building, and I was surprised to learn that it isn’t a listed building at all.