You’d think that a church located in St
Andrew’s Crescent would be St Andrew’s Church and it was from the time
construction began in 1860 until the population of inner-city Cardiff had declined to the point that the
church was no longer viable and it closed its doors in 1954.
As luck would have
it, the Welsh-speaking people of Cardiff
were then looking for a new location as their former church had been severely damaged
during an air raid in the Second World War. So, on 1 November 1956, St Andrew’s
Church was reconsecrated by the Archbishop of Wales and became St David’s
Church or, more correctly, Eglwys Dewi Sant. I work in St Andrew’s Crescent so
I get to see this lovely building several times each week.
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