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Brecon Cathedral

Nearest town: Brecon

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: No Data

Diocese: Swansea and Brecon

County: Powys

Country: Wales

Grid ref: SO0434929031

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 28-Jun-04

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: Church in Wales

Yews recorded at this site: Notable

Notes: This was previously the church of Brecon Priory. It became Brecon Cathedral following the creation of the diocese in 1923. In 1837 Thomas Roscoe's Wanderings in South Wales reported the following: 'Venerable yew trees, of prodigious growth and age, claim almost a coexistant antiquity with the consecrated building, and throw an air of deep solemnity over the scene'.