Menevia

Since 1987, the Diocese of Menevia has covered south west and central Wales. The diocese is suffragan to the Archdiocese of Cardiff, within the Province of Cardiff. The cathedral, dedicated to St Joseph, is in Swansea. The name of the diocese comes from the Roman name for the area around St David’s. 53 churches were visited for Taking Stock (concluded in June 2019).

Swansea (Mumbles) – Our Lady Star of the Sea

This building now containing a church, hall and presbytery was originally built in about 1900 as a hall for Vaudeville... Read More

Swansea (Sketty) – St Benedict

A striking modern church of 1961, recalling Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp Chapel in its sweeping rooflines and small... Read More

Swansea (Townhill) – Our Lady of Lourdes

An interesting but altered design of the 1960s by Thomas Price, built to replace an earlier church hall of the 1920s... Read More

Tenby – Holyrood and St Teilo

A substantial late-Victorian church by F. A. Walters, a prolific Catholic architect of the later phase of the Gothic... Read More

Ystradgynlais – Sacred Heart

A modest church of the 1930s in a functional round-arched style. The building forms a unit with the adjacent... Read More

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