Trefeca

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Trefeca (also in the following forms: Trefecca, Trevecca, Trevecka) was the home of Howell Harris one of the foremost leaders of the Welsh Methodist revival.

It is located between Talgarth and Llangorse Lake.

In 1752 Harris established a Christian community there known as Teulu Trefeca (The Trefeca family) of about a hundred persons. The additions to his family house were in a very unusual Gothic architecture style, one of the first examples in Wales, completed by 1772. Selina, Countess of Huntingdon established a theological seminary near there in 1768 which transferred to Cheshunt in 1790. It was later to become a home for a theological seminary of the Presbyterian Church of Wales or Calvinistic Methodist church in 1842 handed over the property to the Welsh Calvinistic Methodist connexion. In 1872 added to it a Harris memorial chapel designed by R. G. Thomas of Menai Bridge. In 1906 the college was removed to Aberystwyth, and the buildings became used by the Connexion as a preparatory school for ministerial students.