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St David's Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Tyddewi), is situated in St Davids in the county of Pembrokeshire, on the
most westerly point of Wales. The present Cathedral was begun in 1181, and completed not long after. Problems beset the
new building and the community in its infancy; the collapse of the new tower in 1220, and earthquake damage in 1247/48.

Under Bishop Gower (1328–1347) the Cathedral was modified further, with the rood screen and the Bishops Palace,
intended as permanent reminders of his episcopacy. (The Palace is now a picturesque ruin.) In 1365, Bishop Adam
Houghton and John of Gaunt began to build St Mary's College, a chantry, and Houghton later added the cloister which
connects it to the cathedral.

The episcopacy of Edward Vaughan (1509–1522) saw the building of the Holy Trinity chapel, with its fan vaulting which
some say inspired the roof of King’s College, Cambridge. This period also saw great developments for the nave, whose
roof and Irish Oak ceiling were constructed between 1530-40. Bishop Barlow, unlike his predecessor as Bishop, wished to
suppress the following of David, and stripped St Davids shrine of its jewels and confiscated the relics of St David and St
Justinian in order to counteract "superstition" in 1538. In 1540, the body of Edmund Tudor, Earl of Richmond and father of
Henry VII, was brought to be entombed in front of the High Altar from the dissolved Greyfriars’ Priory in Carmarthen. [Wikipedia]