Services

Sunday	Parish Eucharist 9.30, Matins 11.15, Choral Evensong 18.00
Weekdays	Evening Prayer or Choral Evensong 18.00 (Wednesday Evening Prayer)

Service Sheet www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/fileadmin/services_pdfs/current.pdf

Facilities

Guided tours: Guided tours during June-September, weekdays at 14.30, lasting 90 minutes, donation of £4 suggested

Refectory: Open daily throughout the year in St Mary's Hall in the Cloisters. Summer suppers between June & September

Shop: Cathedral Shop at the West End of the Nave and the Domus Shop specialising in Welsh & Celtic gifts & crafts, over a stone bridge across the river

Toilet facilities: Near the Domus shop over the river and within the cathedral

Website: www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk

E-mail address: info@stdavidscathedral.org.uk

Telephone
Cathedral Office 01437 720199

Music

Organist & Master of the Choristers
Alexander Mason (since 2007)

Choir

The Cathedral Choir is unique in Wales with its top line of girls, aged 8 - 18, who sing with the lay clerks at four of the services each week. The Boys Choir is a separate choir which sings Evensong on Tuesday & Friday. The Junior Choir of boys and girls aged 3 - 6 years is drawn from local primary schools. All three choirs are recruited entirely from the miniscule local population of around 1400, singing six choral services each week. There are plans for the addition of choral scholars to the back row thanks to generous funding by the Friends of St Davids. The choirs now enjoy a state-of-the-art choir room in the newly restored Cloisters.

The St Davids Cathedral Festival is held each Spring towards the end of May for a week of classical and choral music.  Details http://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/index.php?id=693

 

Organ

Father Willis 1883, rebuilt by Hill, Norman & Beard in 1953, when it was housed in a magnificent new case, by Alban Carve, on the Choir Screen. The organ was dismantled, restored & rebuilt by Harrison & Harrison in 2000 and enlarged to 4 manuals incorporating much of the Father Willis pipework.

4 manuals  54 stops

Pedal 11 stops. Choir 9 stops, Great 12 stops, Swell 12 stops, Choir East 10 stops

http://www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/index.php?id=698

 

 

Organ specification www.npor.org.uk/cgi-bin/Rsearch.cgi?Fn=Rsearch&rec_index=R00087

Cathedral of St David

Dean
The Very Revd Jonathan Lean (since 2009)

Bishop
The Right Revd John Wyn Evans (since 2008)

Building
The Nave is the oldest part of the cathedral, in Norman style, with rounded arches, wooden ceiling, early font and 14th century stone screen. Beyond the screen the Choir has 15th century stalls and 16th century misericords. The Holy Trinity Chapel by Bishop Edward Vaughan, in the early 16th century perpendicular style, boosts lovely fan vaulting and an altar and reredos of medieval stone fragments. There is a fine Library & Treasury within the cathedral, whilst outside is the newly recreated Cloister. This comprises an East/South Cloister of 2 storeys containing meeting rooms and a North/West Cloister as open walkways with paving & seating as quiet spaces.