St Joseph's Cathedral, now called Menevia Cathedral, is a Roman Catholic church in Swansea, Wales. Father Wulstan Richards, who came to Greenhill in 1875, conceived it. Peter Paul Pugin was the architect. It was built from 1887 to 1889 at a cost of £10,000 and officially opened on November 25, 1888, while still under construction. It became a cathedral in 1987 for the redefined Diocese of Menevia, and it is Grade II listed.
The plan has an apsidal chancel flanked by side chapels, a seven-bay aisled nave, and a polygonal tower with a spire in the northwest corner. Twin porches stand on the west facade.
The walls are coursed bull-nosed masonry with Bath stone dressings, and the nave piers are red Dumfries stone.
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