"St. David's Cathedral"

The style of architecture of St. Davids is mixed with both Romanesque architecture and English Gothic architecture.  Buildings have collapsed or been destroyed ad later replaced. The ground on which is was built in uneven and shifting. One architect hired to rebuild produced substandard work result in more collapse. Correction of his errors took another 100 years. The cathedral suffered the pains of disestablishment in 1920, as did the whole Church in Wales. In the 1950s The cathedral began to have life again and the famous Welsh Youth Pilgrimages to St Davids (Cymry'r Groes) led many to a life of service in the church and provided the Church in Wales with inspired clergy for a decade following. In 1981, Charles, Prince of Wales, visited to celebrate the 800th anniversary of the consecration of the cathedral; and on Maundy Thursday 1982, Queen Elizabeth II distributed the Royal Maundy at the cathedral. This was the first occasion that the ceremony had taken place outside England. In 1989–90, the 1,400th anniversary of the death of St David was presided over by the Archbishop of Wales, George Noakes, who was also diocesan Bishop of St Davids.