The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Tin; IAL.^CE GATEWAY, LLAXDAl !? {j>. lG(i). The Taff.] LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL. 165 century , endowed, we are told, four cliurchcs from the royal estates, one beingLlandaff. A bishop of LlandafP is also said to have died a martyr in the Diocletianpersecution. And yet, witli such high associations, forty years ago this cathedralwas the most desolate and neglected in the land. As it stands, it is eloquent ofthe whole-hearted labours of two men, chiefly: Dean Conybeare and Dean
The rivers of Great Britain, descriptive, historical, pictorical; rivers of the south and west coasts . Tin; IAL.^CE GATEWAY, LLAXDAl !? {j>. lG(i). The Taff.] LLANDAFF CATHEDRAL. 165 century , endowed, we are told, four cliurchcs from the royal estates, one beingLlandaff. A bishop of LlandafP is also said to have died a martyr in the Diocletianpersecution. And yet, witli such high associations, forty years ago this cathedralwas the most desolate and neglected in the land. As it stands, it is eloquent ofthe whole-hearted labours of two men, chiefly: Dean Conybeare and Dean to 1857, the cathedral was a pic-turesque iWed ruin of Perpendicular towerand Early-English roofless walls, witha ghastly eighteentli-centurv conventicleabsorbing what is now half the nave andthe east end of the building. The grandold Xornum doorways south, north-east, andwest, cUid d-io the 1o^^el, seemed to lia\e. Piwto: Alfred Freke, Cardiff. CAEDIFP CASTLE (j). 166). outlived their vocation; and the Norman arch of the interior, above the present altar—perhaps the finest thing in Llandaff—was plastered up and totally expunged. Thepresent cathedial owes its origin to the Norman bishop Urban (1107-33), Avho wasdissatisfied witli the church—28 feet long, 15 feet broad, and 20 feet high—to thethrone of which lie had been raised; and its remarkable restoration to the Llandaffarchitect, John Pritchard. of recent times. It can no longer be described as, byBishop Bull in 1697, our sad and miserable cathedral. Alike within and out-side it satisfies by its beauty and good order. The old and the new are wellblended here. 166 RIVERS OF GREAT BRITAIN. [Thk Taff. As a village. Llamlaif is now lunxlh- imiilit oxccpt a flourishing- siiburh ofCardiff. Still, it keeps its indiviiluality, and declines to be incorporated with thegreat invading town. The remains of the old episcojjal palace and the old mar
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