The Church in Wales' Llandaff Cathedral is pulling out all the stops following the launch of a major £1.5m appeal for a new organ.

With 4,870 pipes, this will be the largest entirely new organ to have been commissioned in a British cathedral since that at Coventry in the 1960s.

Dean of Llandaff, the Very Rev John Lewis, said early news of the appeal was already triggering great excitement throughout Wales and beyond.

"It is amazing how many people, right across the world, have some connection with this beautiful and inspiring place. This great venture in faith is our opportunity to leave a lasting mark for the future at the same time as enhancing the Cathedral and its services in the present."

An invitation to support the massive appeal was made at a special service last Friday, which also celebrated fifty years since the nave was re-hallowed following the devastating bomb damage of the Second World War.

In the Order of Service the Dean said the fiftieth anniversary of the re-hallowing of the nave would offer "each of us the opportunity to leave our own generation's lasting mark for the future".

"The re-hallowing of the nave half a century ago was but one of a series of occasions during which God's faithfulness gave our predecessors here the grace and ability to build something even finer," he said.

"So, firm in our thanksgiving and faith, we will pray for a continuation of God's faithfulness in our launching of this appeal to build a new organ to enhance the worship offered in this great house of God."