Crowdfunding campaign launched to save Welsh chapel where martyrs said Mass

A new campaign is underway to save a 17^th century chapel where two martyrs said Mass.

In 1678, it was reported to the House of Commons that two Jesuits, Philip Evans and David Lewis, had celebrated a "well attended” Mass at the Gunter Chapel in Abergavenny, Wales.

The two men were later arrested and condemned to death for their religion. Evans was executed on 22^nd July 1679, and Lewis a month later on 27^th August. They were subsequently canonised, the last Catholic martyrs of Wales.

The site is now in urgent need of protection and refurbishment.