Cardiff Metropolitan Cathedral

The Cathedral of Cardiff (Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St David) in the Welsh capital, Cardiff, is the Episcopal Church of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff and the Catholic Metropolitan Cathedral of Wales. The to David from Menevia, the patron saint of Wales, called neo-Gothic church was 1884-1887 according to the plans of Edward and Peter Paul Pugin built as a parish church in 1920, became a cathedral of the newly founded Archdiocese of Cardiff.

History

After centuries of state repression could re- establish a Catholic community in Cardiff at the beginning of the 19th century. Your first church at the David Street was completed in 1842. The rapid growth in membership made ​​towards the end of the 19th century to build a second, larger church on Charles Street is required, the present cathedral. On March 3, 1941 St. David was severely damaged in a German air raid. In 1959 it was re-opened after many years of reconstruction work.

Architecture and Facilities

The Cathedral, a church hall turned steady with open wooden roof and a short necked, flat closing chorus is held in the strict forms of early English Gothic. The yokes of the nave are the side chapels added with arched openings. The portal facade flanked to the south, a high square bell tower.

The original equipment is only partly preserved. It was supplemented by the destruction of war, and after the Second Vatican Council through contemporary pieces.

Organ

The organ was built in 1959 by organ builder John Compton. The instrument has 48 registers on three manuals and pedal.