Cardiff Cathedral

This article covers Cardiff's Roman Catholic Cathedral; for the Anglican cathedral see Llandaff Cathedral .

St. David's Cathedral

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

history

After centuries of state repression, a Catholic community was able to re-establish itself in Cardiff at the beginning of the 19th century. Their first church on David Street was completed in 1842. Rapid membership growth made it necessary to build a second, larger church on Charles Street towards the end of the 19th century , which is now the cathedral. On March 3, 1941, St. David was badly damaged in a German air raid . It was only able to reopen in 1959 after years of reconstruction work.

Architecture and equipment

The cathedral, a vestibule church with an open wooden roof and a short, recessed, flat-closing choir , is kept in the strict forms of the early English Gothic . Chapels with arched openings are added to the yokes of the nave . The portal facade is flanked to the south by a tall square bell tower.

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

organ

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

I Choir Organ C – g 3 Contra Dulciana 16 ′ 2 nd Diapason 8th' Stopped diapason 8th' Dulciana 8th' Vox Angelica 8th' Stopped Flute 4 ′ Dulcet 4 ′ Dulcet 12 th 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Flautina 2 ′ Dulcet 15 th 2 ′ Acuta III Krumhorn 8th' Contra Tromba 16 ′ Tromba 8th' Tremulant

II Great Organ C – g 3 Sub diapason 16 ′ 1 st diapason 8th' 2 nd Diapason 8th' Stopped diapason 8th' Dulciana 8th' Octave 4 ′ Stopped Flute 4 ′ Twelfth 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Fifteenth 2 ′ Mixture II Tromba 8th' Octave Tromba 4 ′

III Swell Organ C – g 3 Contra viola 16 ′ Harmonic flute 8th' viola 8th' Harmonic flute 4 ′ viola 4 ′ Nazard 2 2 ⁄ 3  ′ Piccolo 2 ′ Cymbals III Contra skin boy 16 ′ Trumpet 8th' Skin boy 8th' Clarion 4 ′ Tremulant

Pedal Organ C – f 1 Sub bass 32 ′ Contra bass 16 ′ Sub bass 16 ′ Echo bass 16 ′ Octave 8th' Flood 8th' Flood 4 ′ Trombones 16 ′ Skin boy 16 ′ Tromba 8th'

Individual evidence

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2. ↑ picture gallery
3. ↑ For more information on organ (English)

Web links

• Network presence of the Cathedral (English)
• Basic data

Coordinates: 51 ° 28 ′ 51.3 "  N , 3 ° 10 ′ 26.5"  W.