Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Presbytery at Catholic Church of St Joseph
Castle, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Castle
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63233, -3.94363
- Cadw reference
- 11572
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
Attached by cloister/corridor to E of St Joseph’s Church.
History
1886-8. Designed by Pugin and Pugin, architects of London, as part of original scheme.
Exterior
2 storey asymmetrical building, forward to right. Rubble facings, Bath stone dressings, quoins, hipped slate roof with end stacks. 2 and 3 light mullioned windows, arched head to ground floor left. 2 storey porch in angle. Attached range with linking corridor runs left to join church, timber work bargeboards, second doorway etc. Walled forecourt.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- R C Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Hafod BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
- Church of St John the BaptistReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Bethesda Baptist ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.