St Margaret's Church, Roath
St Margaret's Church (dedicated to St Margaret of Antioch) is a nineteenth-century Church in Wales parish church in the suburb of Roath, Cardiff, Wales. It includes the mausoleum of the Marquises of Bute.
History
A church dedicated to St Margaret existed in Roath since the medieval period. It was a small Perpendicular style building with a bell turret at the western end.[1] In 1800 a mausoleum was added, for the Marquises of Bute.[2] The church was completely demolished in 1868 to make way for a new replacement.[1]
The new church was completed, with a cruciform plan in a Decorated Gothic style.[1] The plan had been designed by Alexander Roos, architect to the Butes. The above ground church was designed by architect John Prichard and financed by John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, who dismissed Roos when he came of age in 1868.[3] A wide variety of coloured bricks and coloured stone was used to decorate the internal walls, in red, blue, white, grey-green and pink. [3] The church tower (without the spire envisaged by Prichard) was designed later by John Coates Carter and completed in 1926.[3]
The building became Grade I listed in 1975.[4]
Bute mausoleum
An ornate north aisle chapel was added to the church between 1881 and 1886,[2] as the new mausoleum for the Bute family tombs. [1] Seven large sarcophagi in red granite, were added to contain the remains of the members of the Bute family who had been interred in the previous church.[5] The original stone memorial plaques were included in the new tombs.
Those interred in the sarcophagi are:[5]
- Charlotte Jane Windsor, Marchioness of Bute (1746–1800) – first wife of the first Marquess.
- John Stuart, 1st Marquess of Bute (1744–1814)
- Frances Coutts, Dowager Marchioness of Bute (1773–1832) – second wife of the first Marquess.
- John Stuart, Lord Mount Stuart (1767–1794)
- Gertrude Amelia Stuart (died 1809) – widow of Lord Henry Stuart.
- Lord Henry Stuart (1777–1809) – a son of the first Marquess and Charlotte.
- Elizabeth Penelope Stuart (1819–1822) – daughter of Lord James Stuart.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Memorial Inscriptions: Roath Church, British History Online (from Cardiff Records, Volume 3 John Hobson Matthews (ed.), 1901, pp. 545–552). Retrieved 22 August 2013.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Lynn F. Pearson, Mausoleums, Shire Publications Ltd. (2002), page 39. ISBN 0 7478 0518 0
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Diane A. Walker, 'A Guide to the Parish Church of St Margarets, Roath', Vicar & Churchwardens of the Parish of Roath (1994), pages 1–2. ISBN 978-0-9523835-0-5
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- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Diane A. Walker, 'A Guide to the Parish Church of St Margarets, Roath', Vicar & Churchwardens of the Parish of Roath (1994), pages 10–11. ISBN 978-0-9523835-0-5
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