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St Mary Street (Welsh: Heol Eglwys Fair) and High Street (Welsh: Heol Fawr) are major commercial streets in the Castle Quarter of Cardiff city centre, Wales, which form a major thoroughfare running south from the gatehouse of Cardiff Castle. High Street begins at the junction of Castle Street on the A4161 and ends at the junction of Church Street and Quay Street, from where St Mary Street begins until the roundabout at Callaghan Square on the A4160.

In the 21st century, the thoroughfare has become the location for a wide variety of pubs, bars, restaurants, cafes and coffeeshops.

Notable buildings

Present buildings

• House of Fraser, formerly Howells department store
• Cardiff Market
• Hodge House
• Prince of Wales Theatre (now a pub)
• High Street Arcade
• Morgan Arcade
• Royal Arcade
• Royal Hotel

Demolished buildings

• Cardiff Town Hall (1747), demolished
• Cardiff Town Hall (1853), demolished
• Cardiff Gaol, demolished to make way for Cardiff Market
• YMCA building

Cardiff Free Library

• The first Cardiff Free Library was located above the St. Mary Street entrance to the Royal Arcade

Public art

• Statue of the Second Marquess of Bute, located in the street from 1853 until 1999, when it moved to Bute Square.
• The former Pierhead Clock, installed in a glass box with three monkeys striking the chimes, near the Royal Hotel in 2011.

Notes

1. Kathryn Williams (21 July 2017). "This is how Cardiff's High Street has turned itself around". Wales Online. Retrieved 27 October 2022.
2. "The Town Hall, St. Mary Street, Cardiff, late 19th century". Culturenet Cymru. Retrieved 11 February 2009.
3. "Statue of Second Marquess of Bute". British Listed Buildings. Retrieved 12 September 2022.
4. "Pierhead clock given new St Mary Street, Cardiff site". BBC News. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 12 September 2022.

External links

• Media related to St Mary Street, Cardiff at Wikimedia Commons
• Official website of 'Changing landscapes: Improving St Mary Street and High Street'

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