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Brecon Cathedral. The origins of this building go back to the Norman Conquest. Bernard de Neufmarche built a castle in Brecon in 1093 and gave an existing church, on this spot, to his confessor, Roger the Monk from Battle Abbey in Sussex – a long way from Brecon! Roger built the priory church, dedicated to St John the Evangelist, and, in 1106 ...
Priory Church, Brecon (c.1865) Brecon Cathedral (Welsh: Eglwys Gadeiriol Aberhonddu), in the town of Brecon, Powys, is the cathedral of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon in the Church in Wales and seat of the Bishop of Swansea and Brecon. Previously the church of Brecon Priory and then the Parish Church of St John the Evangelist, it became ...
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Browse 69 brecon cathedral photos and images available, or start a new search to explore more photos and images. Coat of arms of the The Diocese of Swansea and Brecon. From Cathedrals, published 1926.
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Brecon Cathedral started life in 1093 as the Benedictine Priory of St John the Evangelist, built by the Normans on the site of an earlier Celtic church. At the dissolution of the monasteries in 1537 it became Brecon's Parish Church. It became a Cathedral only in 1923, on the establishment of the Diocese of Swansea and Brecon.
