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St. David, patron saint of Wales, founded a 6th century monastery here and trained missionaries to spread Christianity to Ireland. The present cathedral was built under the Norman bishop Peter de Leia in 1180. The shrine to St. David was a popular pilgrimage site in the Middle Ages; two trips here were worth one trip to Rome! A holy site it may have been, but a stable one it was not. The ground was swampy and if you look at the piers in the nave you will see that they lean out and to the side. St. David's draws much from Romanesque traditions; the arches are rounded and heavy. The nave is finished with a rich, coffered ceiling of painted oak. Before the high altar is the tomb of Henry VIII's grandfather, Edmund Tudor, and to the left is St. David's shrine. In the presbytery is a coffin said to contain the bones of St. David and St. Justinian. Of note throughout is the delicate purple sandstone, quarried locally, which gives St. David's a unique character.
