Dylan Thomas spent many years living at Laugharne's Sea View

Hope Chapel in Pontarddulais will receive �158,000 - the largest of the grants being awarded by historic monuments agency Cadw.

St David's Cathedral and a Baptist chapel in Pembrokeshire will benefit as well as a chapel in Llanfyllin, Powys.

The money will be used to preserve the historic buildings.

In Pontarddulais, Grade II listed Hope Chapel in St Teilo Street, was built in the Gothic style built to the Rev Thomas Thomas's design.

Eric Jones, church deacon and organist, said it was made up of several buildings including the original chapel built in the 1860s, the main 650-seater church built in the 1880s, and another building from 1909.

Farmsteads on Bardsey Island will benefit from a �15,000 grant

"At first sight you look around and you think it's in reasonable shape but when you look rather closer, you can see that plastering has deteriorated and so on, there are damp problems there," he said.

He said the entire restoration was estimated to cost around �400,000.

Congregation member Iris Thomas, who was baptised at Hope Chapel, said: "We think a lot of the chapel because we've always been here but to find that somebody else also thinks that it's worth saving does give you a boost."

Sea View, a four-storey house in Laugharne, Carmarthenshire, rented in the late 1930s by Dylan Thomas has been given �31,250 towards repairs.

In July, the Grade II listed building was sold at auction for �232,000 to Graham Milsom, an architect with a practice in Crickhowell, Powys.

In Gwynedd, the Bardsey Island Trust was given �15,000 to repair the fabric of farmsteads on Bardsey Island off the Llyn Peninsula which were built in the 1870s.

St David's Cathedral was given �40,000

Also in the county, Taltreuddyn Fawr in Dyffryn Ardudwy, a house described as an "important regional type of building", received �13,500.

Work to replace and repair window frames at Penuel Cemaes Baptist Chapel in Pembrokeshire has been paid for after it was given �7,000.

In Cardiff, �27,00 was given to help pay for re-roofing and other works to Bethlehem Chapel in Gwaelod y Garth.

A �12,000 grant for Pendref Congregational Chapel in Powys and �18,750 for Palace Gardens in St Asaph, Denbighshire completed the list.

Heritage minister Rhodri Glyn Thomas said: "These buildings represent a wide range of structural types as well as playing a significant part in their local communities."