St David's Cathedral

It began to rain just before light. The rain was heavy, and continued, and continued.

No point trying to do any walking or go nature watching. We went to see St David's the smallest city in the British Isles.

St David, born in this area in approximately 500AD, established a monastery on this site. The cathedral church accumulated many treasures many of which were ransacked not only during The Reformation, but also by Vikings in the 9th and 10th centuries and also Oliver Cromwell's soldiers in the 1640s. 

St David is patron saint of Wales. Two pilgrimages to his church here were deemed equivalent to one pilgrimage to Rome.

The church was remodelled by Sir George Gilbert Scott in the 19th century in a style that seems very Norman on the inside and Victorian Gothic on the outside.