NOSTALGIA: The foundation of Ebeneezer United Reform Church, Pontnewynydd
OPENED in 1742, the Church was founded by Rev Edmund Jones, who was known as ‘Yr hen brophwyd’ or ‘The Prophet’. Born in 1702, Edmund Jones was preaching in the 1720s and by the 1730s was preaching regularly at Pontypool. In 1740, he came to