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St Joseph's Cathedral
Cathedral Church of Saint Joseph in Swansea
St Joseph's CathedralShown within West Glamorgan
51°37′58″N 3°56′38″W / 51.632778°N 3.943889°W / 51.632778; -3.943889
Location	Swansea, West Glamorgan
Country	Wales
Denomination	Roman Catholic
Website	MeneviaCathedral.org
History
Consecrated	1888
Architecture
Heritage designation	Grade II listed
Designated	30 March 1987
Architect(s)	Peter Paul Pugin
Years built	1887–89
Administration
Province	Cardiff
Diocese	Menevia (1987–2024)
Clergy
Archbishop	Mark O'Toole
Dean	Rev. Fr. Benedict Koledoye

The Cathedral Church of Saint Joseph, also known as St Joseph's Cathedral, Menevia Cathedral or Swansea Cathedral, is a Grade II-listed Catholic cathedral in Swansea, Wales. It was the seat of the Bishop of Menevia and mother church of the Diocese of Menevia, and is the co-cathedral of the Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia. The cathedral was built in the late nineteenth century and is located in the Greenhill area of Swansea.

History

Originally built as a church, St Joseph's was conceived by Father Wulstan Richards, OSB who came to Greenhill in 1875. It was designed by Peter Paul Pugin and took two years to build at a cost of £10,000. The building was officially opened on 25 November 1888 while still under construction. Built as a church, it was converted to a cathedral in 1987 for the redefined Diocese of Menevia. It was designated a Grade II listed building on 30 March 1987.

Description

The plan of the building is that of an apsidal chancel flanked by side chapels with a seven-bay aisled nave, a polygonal tower with spire in the north-west corner and twin porches on the western facade. Its walls are coursed bull-nosed masonry with bath stone dressings and red Dumfries stone in the nave piers and responds. The cathedral has a modern pantile roof and there is a gabled parapet, topped with a finial on the western side of the building above a small arched opening over a four-light Geometric traceried window. The nave has three-light clerestory traceried windows and the east facade has a lower clerestory and a three-light window under a corbelled gable with a finial. The ceiling has radiating ribs that extend to the walls.

See also

• Saint Joseph

References

1. "Cardiff-Menevia". Catholic Bishops' Conference. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
2. The Cathedral Today, catholicweb.com; retrieved 29 March 2014.
3. ^ "St.joseph's R.c.church,convent Street, Greenhill - Castle - Swansea - Wales". britishlistedbuildings.co.uk. British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 1 May 2016.

External links

• Diocese of Menevia: The Cathedral
• Artwork at St Joseph's Cathedral, Swansea

v t e Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cardiff-Menevia
Archbishops of Cardiff-Menevia I: Mark O'Toole
Churches Metropolitan Cathedral Church of St David, Cardiff Co-Cathedral Church of St Joseph, Swansea Our Lady and St Michael, Abergavenny St Alban-on-the-Moors, Cardiff St Joseph, Cardiff St Mary of the Angels, Cardiff St Patrick, Cardiff St Peter, Cardiff St Joseph, Hay-on-Wye St Francis Xavier, Hereford Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Lampeter St Mary and St Michael, Llanarth Our Lady of Ransom and the Holy Souls, Llandrindod Wells Our Lady Queen of Peace, Llanelli St Mary, Monmouth St Michael, Newport St Patrick, Newport St Joseph, Port Talbot St Dyfrig, Treforest St David Lewis and St Francis Xavier, Usk
Patronal Feast of the Diocese Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception (8 December)
Schools St Richard Gwyn High School, Barry Archbishop McGrath High School, Bridgend Corpus Christi High School, Cardiff St David's Sixth Form College, Cardiff St Illtyd's High School, Cardiff St John's College, Cardiff St John Lloyd Comprehensive School, Llanelli St Mary's High School, Lugwardine Bishop Hedley High School, Merthyr Tydfil St John's High School, Newport St Alban's High School, Pontypool Cardinal Newman School, Rhydyfelin Bishop Vaughan School, Swansea Mary Immaculate High School, Wenvoe
Deaneries Bridgend Deanery Cardiff Deanery Carmarthen Deanery Hereford Deanery Llandrindod Wells Deanery Newport Deanery North Gwent Deanery Pembroke Deanery Pontypridd Deanery Port Talbot Deanery Swansea Deanery
Predecessors Dioceses of Hereford, Llandaff and St Davids (pre-Reformation) Apostolic Vicariate of the Western District (1688–1840) Apostolic Vicariate of the Welsh District (1840–1850) → Diocese of Newport and Menevia (1850–1895) Diocese of Newport (1895–1916) → Archdiocese of Cardiff (1916–2024) Apostolic Vicariate of Wales (1895–1898) → Diocese of Menevia (1898–2024; Diocese of Wrexham split off in 1987)
See also Belmont Abbey, Herefordshire Joseph Brown Our Lady of Cardigan Caldey Abbey John Hedley Our Lady of Penrhys Chapel of St Non St Mary's College, Aberystwyth Gunter Mansion
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