The Calon Lan Centre is situated at Mynyddbach Chapel in the North of Swansea.  This Chapel has a rich heritage from its original foundations starting in a local farmhouse around 1640 to becoming a chapel built on the current grounds in 1762. This was the first Independent Chapel in South Wales and went on to become a mother chapel to other chapels planted in Swansea.  In 1920 Daniel James, the author of many poems including Calon Lan, known as the Welsh Second Nation Anthem, was buried in the grounds and his grave is a place of pilgrimage today.  

In 2011 the chapel was threatened with demolition but a local group under the leadership of Reverend Grenville Fisher and Melvin John Davies set about to save the heritage and in turn the Calon Lan Centre was established which aims to use the Chapel as an Arts and Culture centre to serve the local community as well as maintaining its religious and spiritual significance. Today the School Room hosts an exhibition to Daniel James which can be viewed by prior booking.  The chapel also hosts Morriston Orpheus, Swansea Philharmonic, The Bach Singers, The Grenville Singers, Tawe Valley Church and Wholeness Ministries.  Recordings have been made, click this link for performances by Bryn Terfel and others.

 Work continues with extensive research into the published and unpublished works of Gwyrosydd some of which you can see in the extracts below and the history of the Chapel.