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Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Davids and Dean and Chapter of St Davids Cathedral since 1397, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; dissenters' meeting houses and Roman Catholic chapels; episcopal revenues and accounts; Brecon Collegiate Church; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.

Further records, including correspondence, sermons and papers relating to conferences, were received in April 2016; a watercolour painting of St Davids Cathedral (1791), has been transferred to the NLW visual collection.

Additional records, 2008-2016, among them visitations, correspondence and material pertaining to events, together with papers and photographs relating to the Cathedral, 1994-2008, were received in September 2016.

Three documents, dated 1920, belonging and relating to the Reverend J. T. Davies (1881-1966), Dean of Bangor 1951-55 (SD/P/440); May 2019.

Posters of the Saint Davids Diocesan Guild of Bellringers advertising monthly practice meetings, 2003-2009, quarterly meetings, 2002-2010, the Annual General Meeting, 2006, and striking competitions, 2005 and 2007, together with a copy of striking competition rules, and a statement of accounts to 1 June 2009; August 2021.

Register containing a list of parishes in the Diocese of St Davids that deposited tithe apportionments in the diocesan Registry Office, c.1836/7; April 2023.

Two eighteenth-century documents relating to the appointment of a Bishop to the see of St Davids, together with an unknown printed page dated 1673; October 2024.

Papers from the Bishops’ Office comprising routine administrative records and other material relating to the work of the Bishop, 1990-2020. Material includes meeting notes (staff meetings, Area Deans meetings, Cytun Finance committee, Bishops meetings, and other ministry meetings); action plans and letters, correspondence and papers relating to specific ministry subjects or Commissions, appointments, Ad Clerums, and other miscellaneous papers. Also correspondence and papers of Bishop Wyn, and some printed items including newsletters (Pobl Dewi), yearbooks, leaflets, and training material; February 2025.

Programmes of St David's Day celebrations at Penclawdd and Llangorvan School, near Monmouth, 1927, and at Resolven Girls' School, Glamorganshire, 1934.

Manuscript and typescript schemes of instruction and programmes of concerts at individual elementary schools in Monmouthshire in celebration of St. David's Day, 1917.

A manuscript essay on the life of St Cuby [Cybi] of Duloe, [?1900], written by the Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould (ff. 1-7).
The text appears to be unrelated to the entries on St Cuby in Baring-Gould's The Lives of the Saints, 12 vols (London, 1872-1877), XI (1877), 186-195, and S. Baring-Gould and John Fisher, The Lives of the British Saints, 4 vols (1907-1908), II (1908), 202-215; it may however be an early draft of Sabine-Gould's article, 'Vita Sancti Kebie', Y Cymmrodor, 14 (1901), 86-95, to which it bears some resemblance. The essay contains a few emendations and deletions in the author's hand. Also included are two letters: from Baring-Gould to J. D. Enys, 11 April 1900, concerning the Saints Breacha and Cuby (ff. 10-11), and to a Mr [?Collier], 25 March 1893 (ff. 8-9).

St. Cadfan's Route [from Towyn to Llangadfan] and 'Place names and Anecdotes in the vicinity of Aberdovey' by S. O'Dwyer. English. Between boards. Donated by the Reverend Canon Henry Thomas, Doncaster, August 1968.

Typescript transcripts and lists, 1943, compiled by David E. Gardner, comprising transcripts (for 1725-1812) and extracts (1813-1929) of marriages recorded in the parish registers of St Brides, Pembrokeshire (ff. 8-12); transcripts of marriages (1754-1837) recorded in the parish registers of Loughor, Glamorgan (ff. 13-33); and a list of non-parochial registers relating to Cheshire held at the General Registry Office, Somerset House (ff. 1-7).

Account book, 1879-88, of St Bride's-super-Ely Congregational chapel, co. Glamorgan.

Records relating to the administration of the diocese of St Asaphs and Dean and Chapter of St Asaphs Cathedral, comprising episcopal registers, bishops' transcripts, marriage bonds and affidavits, and chapter act books, as well as records relating to: the ordination, appointment and resignation of clergymen and other individuals; the licensing of curates and other individuals; the licensing and consecration of land and buildings; faculty papers; dilapidations and sequestrations; augmentations, the creation of new parishes and boundary changes; episcopal revenues and accounts; parochial returns; deeds; consistory courts; visitations; correspondence; and miscellaneous volumes and papers, including terriers and documents relating to episcopal elections.

Two addtional boxes of faculties relating to parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were deposited February 2006.

Confirmations, 2004-2006 relating to parishes within St Asaph Diocese were deposited April 2006.

A collection of twenty-three boxes containing faculty and consecration papers relating to the St Asaph Diocese were deposited September 2007.

One box containing copies of confirmation registers listing persons in St Asaph Diocese, 2003-2007, were deposited October 2007.

Confirmations registers for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese, 2008-2010, were deposited March 2011, and confirmation registers for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese, 2009-2011, were deposited January 2012. Further confirmation registers for 2012 within the St Asaph Diocese were received December 2012.

Confirmation registers 2012-2013 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received November 2013, and for 2013-2014 in October 2014.

Confirmation registers 2014 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received January 2015.

Confirmation registers 2015 for parishes within the St Asaph Diocese were received July 2015.

A letter to Browne Willis, 1719, containing a transcript of a record relating to St Asaph Cathedral; the original record, dated 1455, is printed in Edward Edwards: Willis' Survey of St. Asaph considerably enlarged ... (London, 1801).

This collection comprises facsimiles made at the National Library of Wales in 1926 of four manuscript volumes belonging to the see of St Asaph. They include transcripts from Llyfr Coch Asaph; an entry book exhibited at the visitation of Thomas Davies, bishop of St Asaph, 1561; a court book of the manor of Llanelwy, 1475-1489.

Personal and family papers, including letters to William Spurrell on phonetics and spelling reform, 1848-1885, and Spurrell family history, 1873-1885; letters from Sir James and Lady Hills-Johnes of Dolaucothi, 1885-1917; printed material regarding Welsh mutations and spelling reform, 1876-1889; notes on the Rebecca riots and Carmarthen history, 1872, with additions by H. W. Spurrell, [20th century]; personal papers of, and letters from, Walter Spurrell, 1858-1900; papers relating to Dr Charles Spurrell, including a volume of family pedigrees; letters concerning possible evidence for Welsh Indians, 1891-1892; a diary of Edith Spurrell, 1865; papers relating to Elizabeth Thomas's family, 1817-1839; travel journals and accounts of members of Florence Mary Turner's family, 1821-1902; and miscellaneous papers of H. W. Spurrell, [c.1900]-1984.

Spelling Reform by W. Percy Jones. English. Donated by William Percy Jones, F.R.H.S., Llanstephan, August 1942.

Specimens of calligraphy in various languages by Joseph Allen, schoolmaster, Pembroke, 1788.

Specifications and bill of costs drawn up by Clough Williams-Ellis, architect, for the renovation of his brother's house, The Glen, Conwy, Caernarfonshire (ff. 1-12), with related correspondence, including two letters from Clough Williams-Ellis (ff. 19, 24), and bills from local contractors, 1914.

This collection comprises poetry by Robert Southey and correspondence between him and his friend and patron Charles Watkin Williams Wynn, son of Sir Watkin Williams Wynn, 4th bart, of Wynnstay, Denbighshire, also letters to Charles's brother, Sir Henry Watkin Williams Wynn. There are 540 letters from Southey to Charles, 364 from Charles to Southey and 759 from Charles to Henry (see also NLW MSS 2789-2806).

Papers of the South Wales Women's Temperance Union, including correspondence, 1911-1965; minute books and accounts of meetings, 1931-1957; account books, 1916-1966; printed material, 1948-1957; hymn sheets, 1839-1966; and posters, 1932-1957.

Papers 1984-5, mainly relating to the involvement of Welsh women in the Miners' Strike of those years and its aftermath and in particular to the activities of the South Wales Women's Support Groups. They comprise papers relating to the South Wales Women's Support Group with letters from the secretary, Kath Jones, and associated leaflets, handbills and posters, with papers relating to the Swansea, Neath and Dulais Valley Support Group, the National Organisation of Women Against Pit Closures, the Wales Congress in Support of Mining Communities, and Greenham Common women.

Minutes, accounts and newsletters of the South Wales Sheepdog Trials Association, 1951-1988.