Llandaff

Llandaff, a small town of Glamorganshire, on the right bank of the Taff, 2 miles NW. of Cardiff (q.v.). It is the seat of a very ancient bishopric, said to have been founded by St Dubricius, who died in 612, and among whose successors have been St Teilo and Bishops Godwin, Shute Barrington, Richard Watson, Sumner, and Copleston. The cathedral church, in virtue of which Llandaff is a 'city'—one of the smallest in Britain—was built between 1120 and the first half of the 15th century, and is mainly Early English in style. It had fallen into utter ruin in 1575, but in 1735-52 was barbarously patched up into an 'Italian temple.' In 1843-69 it was thoroughly restored. Pop. 2747. See works by E. A. Freeman (1850), Bishop Ollivant (1860), and R. J. King (1873).