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Glan Y Mor Inn |
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Rooms From: £ 50
Caerfai Bay Road, St. Davids, SA62 6QT
The Glan-y-Mor Inn , Lodge and campsite is located in St Davids facing South, looking across beautiful St. Brides Bay. We offer 6 comfortable, basic en-suite rooms in a fantastic location in the heart of Pembrokeshire.
We are situated in the country, just 3 minutes easy stroll from the Pembrokeshire Coastal Path, overlooking the beach. In the other direction the centre of St. Davids with its famous cathedral and Bishops Palace just 5 minutes easy stroll. Our lively bar,which is very busy in season, restaurant and beer garden also look out over St. Brides Bay. We have a good varied menu with local Welsh produce all freshly made, including steak, fish and an interesting selection of vegetarian dishes. We cater for the discerning unfussy customer looking for comfortable lodging, good food and drink in a fantastic location. Remember we are a 2 star Inn and Lodge with campsite not a 4 star hotel. Our speciality is surfing with Wales' premier surf beach, Whitesands, only 3 miles away. We can offer special surfing packages, with lessons and hire available.
Local Attractions
Pembrokeshire Coast National Park (0 km) - Our beaches are the best in the UK with more seaside awards than any other country. Walk the beautiful Preseli Hills. On our doorstep, a haven for Scuba Diving, Kayaking, Walking, Cycling, Coasteering and surfing.
Pembrokeshire Coastal Path (0 km) - Our beautiful Pembrokeshire Coast Path is famous for its outstanding unspoilt beauty. Winding its way in and out of secluded bays and white sandy beaches and spectacular cliffs
St. Davids Cathedral and Bishops Palace (1 km) - Built in 1181 our magnificent cathedral has been an important place of pilgrimage for nearly fourteen centuries
Surfing at Whitesands (5 km) - Learn to surf at one of Wales' premier surfing beaches curtesy of Ma Simes Surf Hut, with great waves and fantastic scenery.We can supply all your surfing needs.
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ST DAVID'S (Tyddewi) is one of the most enchanting spots in Britain. This miniature city sits back from its purple- and gold-flecked cathedral at the very westernmost point of Wales in bleak, treeless countryside. Spiritually, it is the centre of Welsh ecclesiasticism. Traditionally founded by the Welsh patron saint himself in 550 AD, the see of St David's has drawn pilgrims for a millennium and a half - William the Conqueror included - and by 1120, Pope Calixtus II decreed that two journeys to St David's were the spiritual equivalent of one to Rome. The surrounding city - in reality, never much more than a large village - grew up in the shadow cast by the cathedral, and St David's today still relies on the imported wealth of pilgrims and visitors to the area, attracted by its savage beauty.
The main road from Haverfordwest enters St David's past the tourist office, before descending to the main square, around a Celtic cross , and continuing under the thirteenth-century Tower Gate , which forms the entrance to the serene Cathedral Close , backed by a windswept landscape of treeless heathland. The cathedral lies down to the right, hidden in a hollow by the River Alun. This apparent modesty is explained by reasons of defence, as a towering cathedral, visible from the sea on all sides, would have been vulnerable to attack. On the other side of the babbling Alun lie the ruins of the Bishop's Palace. New Street heads north past the enjoyable Oceanarium (daily: April-Sept 10am-6pm; Oct-March 10am-4pm; £3.50), complete with a shark tank overlooked by a viewing gallery.
From beyond the powerfully solid Tower Gate, the Thirty-Nine Articles - steps named after Thomas Cranmer's key tenets of Anglicanism - approach the purple and golden stone cathedral ( ). The 125-foot tower, topped by pert golden pinnacles, has clocks on only three sides - the people of the northern part of the parish couldn't raise enough money for one to be constructed facing them. You enter through the south side of the low, twelfth-century nave in full view of its most striking feature, the intricate latticed oak roof . This was added to hide emergency restoration work carried out in the sixteenth century, when the nave was in danger of collapse. The nave floor still has a discernible slope and the support buttresses inserted in the northern aisle look incongruously new and temporary. At the crossing, an elaborate rood screen was constructed under the orders of fourteenth-century Bishop Gower, who envisaged it as his own tomb. Behind the screen and the organ, the choir sits directly under the magnificently bold and bright lantern ceiling of the tower, another addition by Gower. At the back of the south choir stalls is a unique monarch's stall , complete with royal crest, for, unlike any other British cathedral, the Queen is an automatic member of the St David's Cathedral Chapter.
Separating the choir and the presbytery is a finely traced, rare parclose screen . The back wall of the presbytery was once the eastern extremity of the cathedral, as can be seen from the two lines of windows. The upper row has been left intact, while the lower three were blocked up and filled with delicate gold mosaics in the nineteenth century. The colourful fifteenth-century roof, a deceptively simple repeating medieval pattern, was extensively restored by Gilbert Scott in the mid-nineteenth century. At the back of the presbytery, around the altar, the sanctuary has a few fragmented fifteenth-century tiles still in place. On the south side is a beautifully carved sedilla, a seat for the priest and deacon celebrating mass. To its right are thirteenth-century tombs of two thirteenth-century bishops, Iorwerth and Anselm de la Grace, and on the other side of the sanctuary is the disappointingly plain thirteenth-century tomb of St David, largely destroyed in the Reformation.
From the cathedral, a path leads to the splendid Bishops' Palace (June-Sept daily 9.30am-6pm; April, May & Oct daily 9.30am-5pm; Nov-March Mon-Sat 9.30am-4pm, Sun 11am-4pm; £2; CADW), built by bishops Beck and Gower around the turn of the fourteenth century. The huge central quadrangle is fringed by a neat jigsaw of ruined buildings built in extraordinarily richly tinted stone. The arched parapets that run along the top of most of the walls were a favourite feature of Gower, who did more than any of his predecessors or successors to transform the palace into an architectural and political powerhouse. Two ruined but still impressive halls - the Bishops' Hall and the enormous Great Hall , with its glorious rose window - lie off the main quadrangle, above and around a myriad of rooms adorned by some eerily eroded corbels. Underneath the Great Hall are dank vaults containing an interesting exhibition about the palace and the indulgent lifestyles of its occupants. The destruction of the palace is largely due to sixteenth-century Bishop Barlow, who supposedly stripped the buildings of their lead roofs to provide dowries for his five daughters' marriages to bishops.
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