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St David's Bishop's Palace
The 14th-century residence of the powerful Bishops of St Davids stands in a meadow setting beside St David's Cathedral. The Palace was built between 1328-47 by Bishop Henry de Gower. The great hall porch is the most highly decorated part of the ruins and an arcaded parapet decorate many of the ruined buildings.
In the late 6th century St David established a monastery here on the south-western tip of the Pembrokeshire peninsula. Over the ensuing centuries, David's monastery was a centre for training missionary monks, who travelled throughout Wales, Ireland, and south-west England. After David's death, his shrine became a popular place of pilgrimage.
Unfortunately, the exposed location of the monastery made it an easy target for raiding Norse seafarers. Over the 4 centuries following David's death in AD 601, the Norse sacked the monastery on at least 10 occasions. But the most serious threat to the monastery was not from the Norse, but from the Norman invaders who came by land following the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. The Normans gradually conquered southern Wales and established their own bishops to replace the Welsh.