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St Davids Cathedral

St Davids Cathedral

John Nash & George Gilbert Scott

Photo: Niki.L · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Location
St Davids, Pembrokeshire, Wales
Client / Owner
—
Year
mid-13th century
Access
Public
Typology
Spiritual

St Davids Cathedral in Wales was built by unnamed medieval masons, with John Nash restoring the west front in 1793 and George Gilbert Scott restoring the cathedral from 1862 to 1870. The article names no client. The infobox lists consecration in 1131, groundbreaking in 1181 and completion in the mid-13th century, and the text suggests the 1131 date refers to the earlier building.

The infobox calls the style Romanesque and English Gothic. The cathedral is 300 feet (90 m) long and 115 feet (35 m) high, with a floor sloping nearly 13 feet (4 m) from east to west. The nave has an Irish oak ceiling.

A tower collapsed in 1220, and Bishop Barlow stripped the shrine in 1538. It was listed Grade I in 1951, and its restored shrine was rededicated in 2012. The article gives no hours.

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