- GB 0210 STDAVIDS
- Fonds
- 1397-2005.
Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Davids and Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral since 1397, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; dissenters' meeting houses and Roman Catholic chapels; episcopal revenues and accounts; Brecon Collegiate Church; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.
Further records, including correspondence, sermons and papers relating to conferences, were received in April 2016; a watercolour painting of St Davids Cathedral (1791), has been transferred to the NLW visual collection.
Additional records, 2008-2016, among them visitations, correspondence and material pertaining to events, together with papers and photographs relating to the Cathedral, 1994-2008, were received in September 2016.
Three documents, dated 1920, belonging and relating to the Reverend J. T. Davies (1881-1966), Dean of Bangor 1951-55 (SD/P/440); May 2019.
Posters of the Saint Davids Diocesan Guild of Bellringers advertising monthly practice meetings, 2003-2009, quarterly meetings, 2002-2010, the Annual General Meeting, 2006, and striking competitions, 2005 and 2007, together with a copy of striking competition rules, and a statement of accounts to 1 June 2009; August 2021.
Register containing a list of parishes in the Diocese of St Davids that deposited tithe apportionments in the diocesan Registry Office, c.1836/7; April 2023.
Two eighteenth-century documents relating to the appointment of a Bishop to the see of St Davids, together with an unknown printed page dated 1673; October 2024.
Papers from the Bishops’ Office comprising routine administrative records and other material relating to the work of the Bishop, 1990-2020. Material includes meeting notes (staff meetings, Area Deans meetings, Cytun Finance committee, Bishops meetings, and other ministry meetings); action plans and letters, correspondence and papers relating to specific ministry subjects or Commissions, appointments, Ad Clerums, and other miscellaneous papers. Also correspondence and papers of Bishop Wyn, and some printed items including newsletters (Pobl Dewi), yearbooks, leaflets, and training material; February 2025.
Church in Wales. Diocese of St. Davids