City Status
In the 16th century, a town was recognised as a city by the English Crown if it had a diocesan cathedral within its limits, but this link was abolished in 1888. In 1991 St Davids town council proposed that a case for city status should be promoted in respect of the Queen's fortieth anniversary on the throne, and in 1992 the Home Office agreed to refer the matter to Buckingham Palace. In 1994, at the request of the Queen, St Davids was again granted city status along with the Irish town of Armagh, "In recognition of their important Christian heritage and their status as cities in the last century". The letters patent conferring city status, which the residents had long considered it to have anyway, were officially presented by the Queen in a ceremony at St Davids Cathedral on 1 June 1995.
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