Cathedral of St Davids is a Grade I listed building in the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. A Medieval Church, cathedral. 2 related planning applications.
Cathedral of St Davids
- WRENN ID
- distant-rafter-sparrow
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Pembrokeshire Coast National Park
- Constituency
- Mid and South Pembrokeshire MP: Henry Tufnell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- Church, cathedral
- Address
- Cathedral of St Davids, St. David's and the Cathedral Close, SA62 6RQ
- OS grid reference
- SM 751 254
- Coordinates
- 51.88199, -5.26838
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Cathedral of St Davids is a building of group value, containing outstanding monuments. The nave houses memorials to Bishop Morgan, who died in 1506, and Bishop Gower, who died in 1347. Within the south transept are fragments of carved stonework dating from the 10th or 11th century, indicative of Celtic origins. The presbytery contains the altar tomb of Edmund Tudor, who died in 1456, an altar tomb commissioned by Henry VIII. The choir aisles display various 13th-century effigies, including one reputedly of Gerald of Wales.
Significant later additions include painted roofs in the crossing and presbytery, created by Sir G G Scott in the post-medieval period. The east end features Salviati mosaics and stained glass by Hardman installed in the lower and upper lancet windows, alongside a vault in the Lady Chapel designed by W D Caroe between 1897 and 1903. A stained glass window in the west wall dates from around 1920.
Local climate
Cathedral of St Davids sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,050 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 96% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 3 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 99% of listed buildings. Of these, 1 follows at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Full EPC report — heating system, energy costs, size, glazing, construction etc.
- Sale history — 9 transactions since 1996
- Related listed building consents — 2 applications
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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- St David's Cathedral Hall (formerly Chapel of St Mary's College) & attached Cloister Ruins
- Wall of walled garden to S. of Cloister Hall
- Footbridge by Pen-y-Ffos
- Retaining Wall on SE.Side of River Alun, from Ford to Bridge by Cloister Hall
- Churchyard with Memorials surrounding St. David's Cathedral (Memorials previously listed separately)
- Cloister Hall
- Undercrofts of former St Mary's College, beneath & to the rear of The Cloister Hall
- The 39 Steps (fromerly included as flight of steps leading to St David's Cathedral Yard)
- Retaining Wall on NE.Side of River Alun between Bridge by Pen-y-Ffos and Bridge behind Cloister Hall
- Pen-y-Ffos