Church of St Andrew & St Teilo, Cathays Church of St Andrew & St Teilo, Cathays The Church of St Andrew and St Teilo is a Church in Wales church, located in Cathays, Cardiff. Originally just 'St Teilo's', the church was one of several (of numerous denominations) built in Cathays in the opening decades of the 20th Century with the intent of servicing the large numbers of working people in the growing district. The Cathays Methodist Church, Woodville Baptist Church and Cardiff International Church are all nearby. The church began life as a tin tabernacle in 1879. This structure, built to serve the large numbers of railroad workers
Cathays under the Freedom of Information Act show that over 70% of the houses in Cathays are now HMOs. The buy-to-let market has deterred young couples, families and first time buyers from setting up home in the area. Cathays High School is an 11-18 mixed comprehensive school that started as a boys Grammar school in 1903 and became a comprehensive high school in 1973. Despite the urbanisation of Cathays there is extensive parkland around the civic centre, including Gorsedd Gardens, Queen Alexandra Gardens, Bute Park and Blackweir. The area is served by Cathays railway station in the east of the area