St Mary's Collegiate and Parish Church, there has been a church on the site of St Mary's since circa 1328, erected by Henry de Gower Bishop of St David's. One Sunday morning in 1739, the roof of the nave collapsed into the Church, fortunately this was before the waiting congregation entered the building, the whole structure was re-built apart from the tower.
In 1822 the Church was lit by gas for the first time with thirty six lamps. The church underwent complete renovation between 1879 and 1882 by Vicar Dr Morgan. In 1896, the church was flattened and rebuilt again under the designs of Arthur Blomfield by Dean Allan Smith, though some parts of the old church survived the re-development.
In Feb 1941 the Church was extensively damaged by Bombing during the Blitz, It was not rebuilt until the 1950s.
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