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Eglwys Dewi Sant, Cardiff

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44: 31: 337:, but because of the changing demographics by 1870 the church was providing services exclusively in English. Though other churches provided some Welsh services, in 1889 a new Welsh-language church hall, Capel Dewi Sant, was constructed at Howard Gardens to the east of the town centre. A new church, Eglwys Dewi Sant, was opened next door in 1891. The church provided services to the Welsh-speaking community for 50 years, until it was severely damaged in the 51: 546: 471: 344:
By 1954, St Andrew's Church in St Andrew's Crescent was suffering from a dwindling congregation as local houses were being converted into offices. It closed and its congregation moved to
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To mark the church's 60th anniversary, in June 2017 Eglwys Dewi Sant held a flower festival, with more than half (£3600) of the proceeds being donated to
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The church is situated in the centre of a tree-lined oval green and is the focus of St Andrew's Crescent, just north of the city centre.
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In 1856 the Marchioness of Bute also built a Welsh-language church in Tyndall Street, close to the new
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St Andrew's Crescent was laid out as a formal space in the 1850s by the trustees of the
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Estate, with the intention of having a church at its centre. In 1859, architects
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Eglwys Dewi Sant church was designated in 1975 as a grade II
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John Newman describes the resulting church, dedicated to
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Eglwys Dewi Sant is located in Cardiff
51°29′06″N 3°10′27″W / 51.485°N 3.1741°W / 51.485; -3.1741
Cardiff city centre
Wales
Denomination
Church in Wales
eglwysdewisant.org.uk
Dedication
St David
Consecrated
Architect(s)
Alexander Roos
Diocese
Llandaff
Vicar(s)
St Andrew
listed
church
Cardiff
Wales
Diocese of Llandaff
Welsh language
Bute
John Prichard
John Pollard Seddon
nave
Saint Andrew
Alexander Roos
William Butterfield

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