St Davids Cathedral
St Davids, Pembrokeshire
Diocese: Tyddewi/St Davids
Photo © Martin Crampin
OS Grid Ref.: SM75162543
Lat/Lng: 51.881978119457,-5.2682854314136
Cathedral Church of St Andrew and St David. The shared dedication is recorded in 1115 as Ecclesiae Sancti Andreae et Sancti David, although other sources from the same date refer only to David.
It was believed that three pilgrimages to St Davids were equivalent to one to Jerusalem, ensuring its status as one of the most important places of pilgrimage in Wales. The cathedral is described in the late fifteenth century in a poem by Iolo Goch.More information
National Monuments RecordChurch Heritage Cymru
Stained Glass in Wales
B.G. Charles, The Place-names of Pembrokeshire (Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1992), 284
Wyn Evans & Roger Worsley, St Davids Cathedral (St Davids: Yr Oriel Fach Press, 1981)
J.R. Davies, 'Cathedrals and the Cult of Saints in Eleventh-and twelfth-Century Wales' in Communities and Conflict in the Anglo-Norman World (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011), 99–106 View online
Iolo Goch, Mawl i Ddewi Sant View online
Sources
Browne Willis, Parochiale Anglicanum (London: 1733), 176
John Ecton, Thesaurus Rerum Ecclesiasticarum (London: 1754), 453
A.W. Wade-Evans, 'Parochiale Wallicanum' in Y Cymmrodor (1910), 28
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