After using the longroom for some months it was decided to search for a suitable site to build a chapel. A plot of land was finally acquired, with space for a cemetery, on a 999 year lease from Thomas Phillips Esq., Ysgubor Fawr, St Fagans, for a rent of ten shillings per annum. The foundations were laid at the beginning of 1842. There was an enormous rock in one of the neighbouring fields in Garth Isaf, which was quarried by the men in the evenings and then carried by the women to the stone mason during the following days. There is no record of the financial cost, which was probably not very great.
The first Tabernacl took almost a year to be built and was opened in January 1843. Levi Lawrence, a minister newly arrived from Llantrisant, ministered to the chapel for the ensuing years, until 1847.
That year of building was not without its problems and its emotional times. After building the walls in preparation for fixing the roof a violent storm broke out and the gable end nearest to the cemetery was blown down. A grave had been opened nearby to bury the young daughter of Bili‟r Gof [blacksmith] from Llanmyddlyn and the funeral had to be postponed for a few days. This was the first funeral in the new cemetery.
