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St David, Dewi Sant, was a leading figure and monk in the early Welsh Church who lived in this area in the sixth century. He founded a monastic community here living a simple, austere life in the Celtic monastic tradition which connected the people of Wales with Ireland, Cornwall, France and the Scottish Isles.
St Davids Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi) is an Anglican cathedral situated in St Davids, Britain's smallest city, [1] in the county of Pembrokeshire, near the most westerly point of Wales.
The site of St Davids Cathedral has been an active place of worship since the sixth century. Explore the history of St David, or Dewi Sant, the community he founded here and the role he continues to play in Wales today.
St David’s Cathedral is the mother church of the diocese of St Davids and an iconic reminder of the Christian heritage of the whole nation of Wales. The cathedral is home to a living community of faith that maintains daily worship, welcomes visitors and pilgrims and offers a pastoral ministry of welcome, care, healing and re-creation.
- Rose window. The Cathedral building has changed over time to meet new needs and styles. Here, in the south-west nave corner, you can see the round 'rose' window has three different frames from different stages of the Cathedral’s history.
- Nave Ceiling. Above your head is the unique wooden nave ceiling. This was made in the 1530s from Welsh oak and is a carved masterpiece. With its rich decoration, it is the only cathedral ceiling of its kind in Britain.
- The Cloisters. This area once housed St Mary's College, founded in 1365 by Bishop Houghton. It housed a master and seven fellows, who served the Cathedral.
- The Treasury. The Cathedral Treasury opened in Spring 2006 to provide a safe home for treasures which tell the story of Christian worship and scholarship at St Davids that began 1,500 years ago and which continues to the present day.
St Davids is one of the great historic shrines of Christendom. Nowhere in Britain is there a more ancient cathedral settlement, for it reaches back fourteen centuries and survived the plunder of the Norsmen in the 'Dark Ages'.
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Tiny Cathedral city, one of the most important shrines of medieval Christendom and place of pilgrimage for centuries. St Davids is a tiny cathedral city (really no bigger than a village) built on the site of the monastery founded by St David (Dewi Sant) in the 6th Century.
