Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St John the Baptist
Landore, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Landore, Swansea, designated on 30 March 1987.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63465, -3.94150
- Cadw reference
- 11601
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · The fourth table of England. Cornub. Devonia, Somerset etc. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1891 · Sheet 10. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. . (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1897 · 247 Swansea (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Set in a railed churchyard with twin E gables facing down Graham Street; W front overlooking valley with St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church opposite.
History
1878-80. By H Woodyer, architect of Guildford; D Morgan, contractor of Swansea. Original scheme included 3-aisled church with tall SW tower. Perpendicular style.
Exterior
Plan of twin aisles to nave and E end. Snecked rubble facings, Bath stone dressings, slate roofs. E front has parapeted gables with cross-finials flanked by slender buttresses (finials to right gable only), linked hoodmoulds, cill band and plinths, 6 and 7-light traceried windows.
7-bay N elevation with buttresses linked by depressed super-arches, Y-tracery windows to centre bays, moulded doorway to right. 3-bay settlement SE chapel with large 4-light Y-tracery windows.
Twin gabled W front with canopied bell-cote on head corbels to right, rectangular frame to doorway set in pointed frame with quatrefoil. Paired 4-light traceried windows with centre buttress to left.
Interior
Interior has undivided chancel and nave with S organ chamber/vestry and S aisle. Open collar-beam roofs with ornamental tie-rods, moulded purlins and wind braces. Panelled arch over polygonal chancel responds. 5 bay arcade with polygonal columns and heavily-moulded 4-centred arches, panelled screen to vestry, rere-arches and nook shafts to windows. Furnishings include highly carved Gothic choir stalls.
Nearby in the register
- R C Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Presbytery at Catholic Church of St JosephReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Former Vivian locomotive shedIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hafod BridgeTransportunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.