Quote by awaymanYou are correct. A cathedral confers city status. Another small city is Salisbury, quite and if you just look up above the shop fronts there are the old building fronts.
I quite agree actually. St David's doesn't feel like a city at all thankfully. It's too lovely for that. I only called it a city because it has a cathedral and I thought that gives it the title of 'city'. It feels like a small town. Even smaller than Abergavenny or Hereford.
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...but I like the outside, on a sunny spring day. Anywhere were I can get away from the buzz of the world.
You are wrong. A cathedral only confers city status in England, where a cathedral of the established church confers city status. In Wales, since disestablishment, a cathedral does not confer city status. Hence Newport did not become a city when St Woolos became the cathedral church of the diocese of Monmouth established after the creation of the Church in Wales, as opposed to the Church of England.
Ah well, I've been Wiki'ed I see.
Nothing to disprove the specific example offered however.
Ah, my roots betray me
