Llandaff Bishops Palace
Llandaff Bishop's Palace is a ruined medieval palace in the cathedral close of Llandaff in Cardiff, the remains of the residence of the Bishops of Llandaff built beside one of the oldest cathedral foundations in Wales. The palace ruins stand alongside Llandaff Cathedral, which dates in its present fabric from the twelfth to the twentieth centuries and contains Jacob Epstein's remarkable aluminium Christ in Majesty, installed after the cathedral was severely damaged by a German landmine in 1941. The ruins of the Bishop's Palace, with their substantial gatehouse and walls, provide an atmospheric complement to the cathedral in this compact and historically remarkable precinct. Llandaff is now a suburb of Cardiff but retains the character of a distinct historic village centred on its cathedral and close, providing one of the most complete medieval ecclesiastical landscapes in south Wales within easy reach of the city centre.