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welsh churches


Folder: welsh churches
churches, chapels and monastic architecture in wales

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 142
neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster, presumably for dockworkers, although central cardiff's glittering glass hulks creep ever closer to what is now a shrinking area of poor council housing, squeezed from the south by the slickly rebranded docks

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 2 261
big neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster. this facade is in fact not the entrance, which is at the other end.

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 158
spooky c20 crucifixion (by j. coates carter?) outside church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 171
nice corbel table and dragon head drip stops on the neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 146
gable end rose window on neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 169
neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 162
carved detail including a beakhead above the corner of the roof of the neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster for the second marquess of bute

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 151
tower top corbel on neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st mary's church, bute town, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 159
western pinnacles on the neo-norman church built 1840-5 by thomas foster

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 1 289
rather bleak church built in 1884-7 by pugin and pugin

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 175
rather bleak exterior of the chancel, rebuilt in the 1950s by bates and price

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 141
statues on the rather bleak facade of the church built in 1884-7 by pugin and pugin

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 147
statues on the rather bleak facade of the church built in 1884-7 by pugin and pugin

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 158
the font looks to be part of the 1950s post-WWII reconstruction by bates and price with a later statue of john the baptist

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 171
church built in 1884-7 by pugin and pugin, much of the interior with the roof and chancel rebuilt in the 1950s by bates and price after war damage

st davids r.c. cathedral, cardiff

31 Dec 2014 172
chancel with rather thin 1950s post-WWII reconstruction by bates and price

city united reformed church, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 133
built 1865-6 for scottish presbyterians by f.t. pilkington better known in scotland for his inimitable style. this church has suffered alterations, yet retains its rogue goth brashness

city united reformed church, cardiff

30 Dec 2014 146
built 1865-6 for scottish presbyterians by f.t. pilkington better known in scotland for his inimitable style. this church has suffered alterations, yet retains its rogue goth brashness

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