Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Presbytery at Catholic Church of St David
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
- 51.61773, -3.94202
- Cadw reference
- 11616
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
Adjoining SW corner of church with link building overlapping 2 bays of S aisle.
History
Probably 1864, when church was extended.
Exterior
2 and 3-storey painted domestic building with advanced range on left and polygonal stair-tower to angle, lower 1-storey extension to right next porch. Slate roofs, brick stacks (stems removed), gabled dormers with cusped bargeboards, long weathercourses. Mullioned windows of 1-6 lights with incised decoration to margins. Similar style to left return elevation.
Reason for designation
Group value.
Nearby in the register
- St. David's Priory Catholic ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Pedestal & Statue of Sir H.Hussey VivianCommemorativeunder 1 mi
- 4 Princess WayCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Princess WayCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.