St German of Auxerre, Roath, Cardiff. Designed by G. F. Bodley (1827-1907) and Thomas Garner (1839-1906), for Father Pullen of St Margaret's, Roath, as its first "daughter church," and completed in 1884. Its notable flying buttresses are said to be the only ones in the city (see Rose). John Newman considers it a "church which matches Butterfield’s [St Augustine's, Penarth] in quality," and one which "ushers in the late Victorian style, tall, spacious and elegant, flowingly Dec rather than Geometrical. Alone among churches by London architects, it exerted widespread influence locally. It is also unusual in being accompanied by a school and a clergy house by the same architects. Bodley & Garner’s slightly later St Saviour, Splott, Cardiff, 1887-8, is far less authoritative" (95).
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Bibliography
Newman, John, with contributions by Stephen Hughes and Anthony Ward. Glamorgan (Mid Glamorgan, South Glamorgan and West Glamorgan). London: Penguin and the University of Wales Press, 1995.
Rose, Jean. Cardiff Churches through Time. Stroud, Glos.: Amberley, 2013 (ebook).
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