St Davids Cathedral Library / Llyfrgell y Gadeirlan Tyddewi
St Davids Cathedral Library. Llyfrgell Y Gadeirlan Tyddewi. Only Welsh Cathedral Library in situ. Beautiful books C16 to C21, in beautiful building.
- Newly revealed intrigue, questionable finances, organist with no organ & more in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social All between 1600 & 1740. In @bodleian.ox.ac.uk & now published by @uniwalespress.bsky.social 11.30am Saturday 31st January 2026 Tickets via www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library
- #ThrowbackThursday 100 years ago, in 1925, the churches & chapels of Wales joined in a Peace Appeal/Apel Heddwch to the churches of America "on a matter which is causing us deep concern"..."to adequately fulfill the function of the world's Peacemaker." #JystDweud #Heddwch
- #OTD #ARYDYDDHWN Tudalen Ionawr yn Beibl 1620 Blwyddyn Newydd Dda I chi, ac I bawb sydd yn y ty 🥳 January page in 1620 Welsh Bible Happy New Year 🥳 @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social @uwtsdlib.bsky.social #lectionary
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn 29th Dec 1170 Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket murdered during a service in his cathedral. What has that got to do with @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social? Why did Henry II visit here after the murder? Join us 11.30am to find out www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/library
- Cynhyrchwyd y Beibl hwn yn 1588 yn gyfnod cythryblus a sicrhaodd oroesiad y Gymraeg. Roedd yn bleser ac yn fraint ei rannu gyda'r cyhoedd yng Nghymru, Haf 2025. Roedd Llyfrgell Abaty San Steffan wedi ei gadw y Beibl mewn cyflwr ardderchog. @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- Produced in 1588 turbulent times, this Bible ensured survival of Welsh. It was a joy & a privilege to share it with the Welsh public in summer 2025. Westminster Abbey Library had kept it in excellent condition. @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social
- Ond mae'r Quire gyda misericord yn edrych hapus iawn ar hyn o bryd! Nadolig Llawen!
- #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Christmas #Nadolig Richard II Act2 Scene1 Blessèd Mary’s son, This land of such dear souls. 📷 Nativity scene in stained glass window at east end of presbytery @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social
- Between Christmas & New Year join us for Christmas themed Tours of Rarely Seen parts of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social that have been hidden in plain sight over centuries. Join us 11.30am Sat 27th Dec or Mon 29th Dec 🎟 Tickets in nave shop or online www.StDavidsCathedral.org.uk/discover/library
- #ThrowbackThursday to centuries past, to be remembered in the future. In @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social we are divided from the past only by time, not by place.
- #ThrowbackThursday to centuries past, to be remembered in the future. In @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social we are divided from the past only by time, not by place.
- #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social Richard II Act3 Scene2 And darts his light through every guilty hole. 📷 From his tomb, Edmund Tudor looks westwards down @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social past flying angels to Christmas Trees
- Plygain heno am 7yh (Dydd Wener 12 Rhagfyr) yn @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Croeso i bawb. 🎄🎵 (...a gwin a teisen wedyn...) Plygain this evening (Friday 12 Dec) in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 7pm. All welcome.🎄🎵 #Adfent #Advent #Nadolig @churchinwales.bsky.social @bookllyfr.bsky.social
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn 5.30pm heno / this evening Sgwrs: Ffydd mewn byd di-ryfel, 1925 Apel Heddwch Talk: Faith in a warless world, 1925 Peace Appeal @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social Link here 👇📺 www.wcia.org.uk/events/onlin...
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn 1925 #ChurchesPeaceAppeal given to Federal Council of Churches of #America 1st signatory: Bishop of StDavids, John Owen. 100yrs on, Bishop of StDavids honours predecessor at @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social memorial #WCIA #Cytun @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- Fascinated today with CS Allen photographs of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social approx 1870s. Unique donation to our friends in Picton Castle kindly passed on to us. Here 👇 cathedral west end - ruined St Mary's College & cloisters + Afon Alun wooden bridge, before Gilbert Scott's restoration. #Advent
- #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #time Richard II Act5 Scene5 Now hath time made me his numb'ring clock. 📷 Clock faces on @StDavidsCath tower.
- @dolencymru.bsky.social today pays tribute to Elaine Morgan, a dedicated supporter of the Wales-Lesotho partnership work. Elaine would have been delighted with the new St Davids & Matsieng heritage project, celebrating Wales as an Outward Looking Nation. www.dolencymru.org/news-item/a-...
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn Today, Sunday 9th November, we remember those who have died for our country in time of war. Many of us will wear red poppies. Here from Cathedral Library - 1597 Gerard's Herbal as Wild Poppy. @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @remembrancewatch.bsky.social
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- Join Enthronement of 15th Archbishop of Wales, & 1st female Archbishop, at 3pm today, 8th Nov 2025, on #YouTube (on link below) @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social #Cytûn @amc-waw.bsky.social @religiousarcgrp.bsky.social @librarywales.bsky.social @anglicanwomen.bsky.social @churchofengland.org
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn 5fed Tachwedd Beibl 1620 Brad y Powdr 🧨 5th November in 1620 Welsh Beibl - marked as Treachery of the Gunpowder Plot. 🧨 @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @biblesociety.bsky.social #CYTUN @leighrichardson.bsky.social
- Tudalen Tachwedd yn Beibl 1620 1af - Holl Sainct November page in 1620 Welsh Bible 1st - All Saints @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- #ThrowbackThursday 30th Oct 1485 Henry VII crowned in splendour in @westminsterabbey.bsky.social 📷 Tomb of Edmund Tudor, built of Purbeck marble by son Henry VII. Here seen in prime location in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Filled in arches & lintels are pre the major 1860s GG Scott restoration.
- Join us this Wednesday 29th Oct 2pm for Tour of Rarely Seen parts of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social What is behind the red ropes? Which Prince of Wales is hidden in plain sight? Book in nave shop or online: bookwhen.com/stdavidscath... @visitwales.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- Remembering today the Peace Appeal, Apel Heddwch, by Welsh church & chapel leaders in 1925. Original of the Appeal letter, from #WCIA_Wales #AcademiHeddwch, Temple of Peace, Cardiff, will be at the #CytunNew service 2.30pm @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Croeso i bawb. All welcome.
- Looking forward to sharing rare historic Bibles & 1925 Apel Heddwch Peace Appeal with #Cytûn friends in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2.30pm tomorrow 26th October 📷 Frontispiece 1620 Welsh Bible 📷 1925 Apel Heddwch Peace Appeal Ecumenical letter from Wales to USA @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- Looking forward to sharing rare historic Bibles & 1925 Apel Heddwch Peace Appeal with #Cytûn friends in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2.30pm tomorrow 26th October 📷 Frontispiece 1620 Welsh Bible 📷 1925 Apel Heddwch Peace Appeal Ecumenical letter from Wales to USA @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
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- It was a wonderful privilege to welcome these Orthodox friends to @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 100 years after a previous Orthodox Patriarchs visit & 1700 years after the Council of Nicaea. #CytunNew @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social #ChurchinWales #AnglicanCommunion
- #LibrariesWeek #WythnosLlyfrgelloedd #WorldArchitectureDay Today we mark Bishop Connop Thirlwall on anniversary of his 1875 death. Why is his prominent statue at west end of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social ? What did his 1860s restoration works include? 11am Tour 2pm Talk Join us 👋🏰
- After a week of welcoming #CadwDrysauAgored #CadwOpenDoors + Anglican-Orthodox conference - we also look forward to sharing our own stories in @cilipcymru.bsky.social LibrarIes Week. 👇 here schedule of Talks + events in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social Come join us 👋📖📚
- Looking forward to 3 days of #cadwwales #cadwcymru Drysau Agored Open Doors! Free Tours of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Library, Bell tower, lapidarium, Bishops Palace free entry. & what have Thomas Becket and Eastern Orthodox church got to do with all this?? 👇 cadw.gov.wales/open-doors-s...
- #ThrowbackThursday Really great #Cadw Drysau Agored Open Doors day in St Martin's & St Enfail's with their 1620 Beibl, found in vestry cupboard. As many questions as answers. #GwaelodYCwpbwrdd @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- Join us next Thursday 2pm/11th Sept for the next one in these specialist tours of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Previous reviews: "I thought I knew the cathedral, but you've shown me so much more"😀 "So special to experience such heritage & rare books" 📜 "This is an amazing place"🙏👍
- Looking forward to another Tour of Rarely Seen parts of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2pm Thursday 11th September Where is the pelican? Where is Renard? Have you walked past the Lord Rhys? Are they hidden in plain sight? 🎟Tickets £12 online 👇 www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/lib...
- Looking forward to another Tour of Rarely Seen parts of @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social 2pm Thursday 11th September Where is the pelican? Where is Renard? Have you walked past the Lord Rhys? Are they hidden in plain sight? 🎟Tickets £12 online 👇 www.stdavidscathedral.org.uk/discover/lib...
- #OTD #ArYDyddHwn Mis Medi yn Beibl 1620 September in 1620 Welsh Bible #lectionary @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social @churchinwales.bsky.social @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social
- #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Education RichardII Act5 Scene2 No matter, then, who see it. I will be satisfied. Let me see the writing. 📷 Statue in @stdavidscathedral.bsky.social Trinity Chapel of prolific 12th century writer Gerallt Gymro. Here with his ever present quill pen.
- Scorchio tu allen ☀️☀️☀️ Very very hot outside ☀️☀️☀️ For cool quiet corner with supply of Rare Books, 16th century onwards - come straight to St Davids Cathedral Library, open 2pm-4pm today/Monday. 📚📔📖 #CoolCathedral @stdavidsdiocese.bsky.social @visitwales.bsky.social
- #ShakespeareSunday @hollowcrownfans.bsky.social #Power Richard II Act 3 Scene 2 That power I have, discharge, and let them go To ear the land that hath some hope to grow. 📷 The white dove on shoulder of Dewi Sant, St David, represents the power of the holy spirit guiding him.
