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1842 Original Art Engraving St. David's Cathedral - North West View AC6

1842 Original Art Engraving St. David's Cathedral - North West View AC6

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~6x10 See pics for condition.

Taken from original 1842 copy of the book "Cathedral Churches of England and Wales Volume III". Has some spots and other signs of age, as it is nearly 200 years old.

1842 Original Art Engraving St. David's Cathedral - North West View AC6

As this was once an archbishoprick, it is proper in writing the history of the Welch Sees to give it the precedence. The others, Llandaff, Bangor, and St. Asaph, having been suffragans to it.
When it lost its metropolitan rank, it became together with the other three suffragan to the see of Canterbury, and the whole of Wales is still included within that province.
St. David's is in South
Wales, and in a remote corner of the County of Pembroke, within a short distance from the sea coast.
This see is of very remote antiquity, the origin of it given by Browne Willis, who collected his account from Godwin, Leland, and Wharton, is as follows: It was from the first a metropolitan see, but began at a place called Caerleon
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