Welsh community races to save chapel where Cwm Rhondda hymn first sung
by Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent from on (#6YTYV)
Fundraising campaign launched after Grade II-listed Capel Rhondda, near Pontypridd, put up for sale
A Welsh valleys community has launched a campaign to save the chapel where the popular hymn Cwm Rhondda, or Bread of Heaven, was first sung.
The composer John Hughes wrote the hymn in 1907 to celebrate a new organ at Capel Rhondda in Hopkinstown, near Pontypridd.
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