Editing Lampeter (section)

==University==
{{Main|University of Wales Trinity Saint David}}
[[File:View of St. David's College.jpeg|thumb|The college {{circa|1835}}]]
St David's College was founded in Lampeter in 1822 by [[Thomas Burgess (bishop, born 1756)|Thomas Burgess]], Bishop of St David's, to provide training for those wishing to join the Anglican priesthood. It was the first institution of higher education in Wales and the third oldest in England and Wales after Oxford and Cambridge. In 1852 it was granted a charter to award the [[Bachelor of Divinity]] (BD) degree, and in 1865 another charter enabled it to confer BA degrees in [[liberal arts]].<ref name="JGJ2" /> Its central building, based on an [[Oxbridge]]-style [[Quadrangle (architecture)|quadrangle]], was designed by [[Charles Robert Cockerell]].<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0_VQEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA54|title=Redbrick: A Social and Architectural History of Britain's Civic Universities|page=54|first= William|last= Whyte |year= 2016|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0192513441}}</ref>

In 1971, it became a constituent part of the [[University of Wales]] as St David's University College and was renamed the University of Wales, Lampeter, in 1996. In 2008, the Lampeter institution's original charter was used to reform higher education in West Wales with the integration of Trinity College Carmarthen, further education colleges in Cardigan and Llanelli, and the technical college known as Swansea Metropolitan into the [[University of Wales Trinity Saint David]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://uwtsd.ac.uk/about/history/|title=History|publisher= University of Wales Trinity Saint David|access-date=27 November 2022}}</ref>

In January 2025 Trinity St David finalised plans to stop using the Lampeter campus for university teaching and relocate its courses, staff and students to Carmarthen.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c78x4l9lk43o|first=Bruce|last=Sinclair|title=University education at Wales’ oldest campus ends|work=[[BBC Wales]]|date=23 January 2025|access-date=24 January 2025}}</ref>

The university's [[Rugby Union]] team was the first in Wales. It was formed in the 1850s by [[Rowland Williams (theologian)|Rowland Williams]] who introduced the game from Cambridge.<ref>{{cite web |title=Celebrating the roots of Welsh rugby |url=https://www.wru.wales/2016/03/celebrating-the-roots-of-welsh-rugby/ |website=[[Welsh Rugby Union]] |date=22 March 2016}}</ref>