St German of Auxerre, Cardiff
St German of Auxerre, Cardiff
St German of Auxerre is a Grade I Church in Wales church on the corner of Star Street and Metal Street, Adamsdown, Cardiff, in the Diocese of Llandaff and the Roath and Cathays Ministry Area.
- Location
- Cardiff, City of Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- County
- City of Cardiff
- City / town
- Cardiff
- Address
- Star Street, Cardiff, City of Cardiff, CF24 0JY
- Postcode
- CF24 0JY
- Built
- 1881–84
- Consecrated
- March 1886
- Architect
- G F Bodley and T Garner
- Denomination
- Church in Wales
- Dedication
- German
- Diocese
- Llandaff
- Parish
- St German, Roath
- Grade
- I
- Style
- Free Decorated Gothic Revival
- Materials
- Pink-grey rock-faced Swelldon stone with Bath stone dressings; slate roofs
- Grid reference
- ST 195 768
- Opening hours
- Sunday 11am to 1pm. Tuesday 10am to 11am. Wednesday 7pm to 8pm. Please do contact us in advance if you are making a special journey and wish to see the church.
- Access
- Accessible toilets nearby. Level access to the main areas. Ramp or level access available on request
Overview
Cadw records a church of 1881–84 by G. F. Bodley and T. Garner, replacing an earlier iron church on a site given by Lord Tredegar. The style is Free Decorated: pink-grey rock-faced Swelldon stone with Bath stone dressings and slate roofs. The plan is a five-bay hall-church nave without clerestory but with tall aisles, a three-bay chancel with flying buttresses over north and south chapels, a polygonal north-west stair turret, an east vestry, and a tall octagonal fleche. Cadw grades it I as among the finest nineteenth-century religious buildings in Wales.
The interior has boarded wagon roofs with stencilling, a full-height chancel arch, and a rood beam by Farmer and Brindley to Bodley’s designs. Fittings include a reredos of 1921–22 by Hare, Bodley’s painted organ case of 1887, a font of 1898, and glass by Burlison and Grylls, C. E. Kempe and Hugh Easton. Wikipedia records consecration in March 1886, when the parish of St German was created.