“If you were alive in 1884 and wanted to leave Cardiff by the northerly road you would hurriedly pass through the outlying district of Maindy not wishing to tarry. The district at this time was known as “Black Maindy” because of its fearsome reputation as a place of drunkenness, brawlings, rowdy quarrels and free-for-all fights amongst its inhabitants, making it very difficult to maintain law and order. Those who did tarry and put down roots, however, were not dismayed by these conditions but were determined, under God, to establish a place of Worship where the new-life-giving quality of the gospel would be experienced by those coming under conviction from the preaching and teaching of God’s word.”