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16-535: The Cymanfa Ganu movement was launched in 1859 at Bethania Chapel in Aberdare , where it was pioneered by the Reverend Evan Lewis. In Wales, cymanfaoedd canu are held each year in many villages and towns throughout the country. Some have more than one Cymanfa Ganu a year, as often many separate chapels hold their own. Some large annual events occur in some chapels and take place at festivals such as

32-583: A branch of Croesgoch. By the 1900s cheap grain was being imported from overseas and milled in larger mills in towns and cities, leading to the closure of Aberfelin mill in 1918. The mill stones remain in the ruins of the roofless mill. The historic centre of the village was designated as a Conservation Area in 1997. Trefin is surrounded by the Irish Sea and on the Pembrokeshire Coast Path , between Porthgain and Abercastle . It

48-677: A field known as Cae Tirion which was part of the Ynyslwyd estate, at a cost of £500. The minister from 1870 until 1908 was William James , a native of Trefin in Pembrokeshire. James became a member of the Aberdare School Board for several years. Bethania's membership declined rapidly after the Second World War , although the opening of Ysgol Gynradd Gymraeg Aberdâr  [ cy ] briefly revived

64-473: A long flight of steps. The chapel was designated a Grade II- listed building on 1 October 1991. It closed in the early 1990s and has now been demolished. The cause is said to have begun with the holding of a Sunday School at the Black Lion hotel, immediately in front of where the chapel was built. The first building, erected in 1853, was designed by Evan Griffiths of Aberdare and built by David Evans, on

80-527: A rocky cove, was used for roughly 500 years by the local populace until 1918 when it was closed due to cheaper wheat imports from abroad impacted the mill's production. When operating, the wheat at the mill was milled to produce flour for bread and barley was ground into winter feed for livestock. From the 1800s, most of the village was rebuilt with a mix of early 1900s cottages and larger Victorian homes built for "sea captains". The other main industry during this period alongside farming and shipping, were

96-612: Is a village in North Pembrokeshire , south-west Wales . The village lies within the parish and community of Llanrhian , which has a significant Welsh-speaking population. The name "Trefin" possibly derives from "Tref" meaning farmstead , and "Ddyn" meaning high ground. Trefin was settled in the medieval period , around the 12th–13th centuries, having an overall linear arrangement and faint traces of an open-field system . Its earliest inhabitants were of English or Flemish origin. The settlement had links with

112-413: Is also available during the days of the festival. The Welsh North American Association is the main organizational body responsible for putting on the event. Bethania Chapel, Aberdare Bethania was a Calvinistic Methodist chapel in Aberdare , Rhondda Cynon Taf , Wales, which seated 550 people. Located near the centre of Aberdare, it had a somewhat concealed entrance and was approached up

128-418: Is conducted with the dignity of a church service, it is not unknown for the musical conductor to stop the singing when one or more of the voice sections wanders from the desired harmony and needs special attention. Interspersed between the formal proceedings are frequent sessions of spontaneous singing of favorite hymns. A Welsh marketplace , offering Welsh products, artifacts, souvenirs, recordings, and books,

144-764: Is on the route of the Strumble Shuttle bus service, part of the Pembrokeshire Greenways public transport service. Carreg Samson, a Neolithic burial chamber is located nearby, between the village and Abercastle. Trefin lies within the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park , the only coastal area included in the National parks of the United Kingdom . Trefin is a small village of around 130 people, and houses

160-770: Is still in daily use, together with Argentine Spanish . Outside of Wales, in the UK there are Cymanfaoedd Canu in London, parts of the West Midlands and other areas where there are still evangelical chapels using the medium of Welsh. The preservation of the Cymanfa Ganu as a unique feature of Welsh culture is being supported by a number of Welsh cultural associations, such as the New Zealand National Gymanfa Ganu Association and

176-470: Is the defining day of the four-day festival which begins with a bilingual church and memorial service. After a brief intermission, this service is followed by afternoon and evening sessions of the Gymanfa Ganu itself. A unique feature of the gymanfa ganu is the seating separation of alto , soprano , tenor , and bass singers into sections for the four-part harmony singing. And while the Gymanfa Ganu

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192-658: The National Eisteddfod and the Llangollen International Musical Eisteddfod . Some are occasionally held in theatres and concert halls. Cymanfaoedd Canu are held across the world – wherever members of the Welsh diaspora live, significantly in Y Wladfa ( Chubut Province , Argentina ), e.g. Trelew and Gaiman , where there were significant Welsh settlements from the mid-19th century. In some of these areas Patagonian Welsh

208-753: The Welsh North American Association ( North America ). Once a year, a four-day North American Festival of Wales is held in North America over the Labor Day weekend. The festival starts on Thursday night with an opening ceremony and concert. The weekend continues with an evening banquet sponsored by the North America Wales Foundation on Friday and a Saturday concert, generally featuring a Welsh male voice choir and soloists, both from Wales. Sunday

224-749: The Sunday School, allowing the then minister to address the children in Welsh for the first time or many years. In 1965 a service was held at Bethania to mark the centenary of the Welsh colony in Patagonia . 51°42′44″N 3°26′44″W  /  51.7122°N 3.4456°W  / 51.7122; -3.4456 This article about a Welsh building or structure is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Trefin Trefin ( Welsh standardised : Tre-fin ) , formerly anglicised as Trevine ,

240-535: The estate of the ecclesiastical lordship of St Davids . The Archdruid Crwys , who was born in Craig Cefn Parc , Glamorganshire , had links to the village, with the historic mill at nearby Aberfelin being the subject of his poem Melin Trefin . Some of Trefin's old village cottages and the old mill's remains date back to the 15th century. The medieval mill, built for use by the bishops in and located in

256-722: The mechanised slate quarries near the coast, expanded in the 1860s, with its resources exported from Porthgain 's port. Two chapels were built in the village. The first the Trefin Calvinistic Methodist Chapel built in 1786 (rebuilt in 1834), became a centre for the Calvinistic Methodist Church in Wales and was restored in 1936. The other chapel, the Baptist Chapel was built in 1840, rebuilt in around 1870 and served as

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