St Mary’s Church - Swansea - Wales.
N 51° 37.142 W 003° 56.598
30U E 434694 N 5719088
St Mary's Collegiate and Parish Church is an Anglican Church in the centre of Swansea, Wales. There was a church on the site of St Mary's since before 1328.AD erected by Henry de Gower, Bishop of Saint David's.
Waymark Code: WMFAEK
Location: South Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 09/19/2012
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The Collegiate & Parish Church of St Mary.
(Eglwys Golegol a Phlwyf y Santes Fair)
The Benefice of Central Swansea,
(Bywoliaeth Eglwysig Abertawe Canalog.)
St Mary’s is the Civic Church for the City and County of Swansea and is open seven days a week, offering classic Anglican worship and fine music, in a unique building fortunate to include examples of stunning contemporary art and stained glass.
"Christianity first reached the Gower through Celtic missionaries. However, it was only with the arrival of the Normans that a church was first built in Swansea, possibly as early as the twelfth century. For most of the Middle Ages, the right to appoint a vicar for St Mary’s and to enjoy the income of the church’s estates was in the hands of the hospital of St David. Adjacent to St Mary’s and founded in 1332, elements of the hospital’s architecture can still be seen in the present Cross Keys pub. The fourteenth century saw the rebuilding of St Mary’s in the Decorated gothic style and by 1343 it is known to have contained at least two subsidiary chapels dedicated to St Anne and the Holy Trinity. Mediaeval worship and piety flourished until the Reformation". Text source: (
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