Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
York Place Baptist Chapel
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
- 51.61803, -3.93971
- Cadw reference
- 11674
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
Occupying the middle part of an island site at the E end of Oystermouth Road.
History
Dated 1830. Late classical style.
Exterior
2 storey symmetrical stucco front with advanced outer bays and later lean-to porch. Hipped slate roof with bracket eaves, painted quoins to 1st floor, 4 arched windows with 2-light traceried heads. Fine (relocated) pedimented doorcase with Ionic half-columns and lettered frieze, hoodmould with keyblock to arched doorway with double doors. Segmental headed windows between pilasters to outer bays, plain rendered side elevations with arched window heads. Later gabled hall block set back on right. School room range to rear.
Interior
4-bay galleried interior.
Nearby in the register
- York Place Baptist Chapel HallReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Royal Institution of South Wales (Swansea Museum) Boundary Walls & RailingsRecreationalunder 1 mi
- 2 Princes WayCommercialunder 1 mi
- 3 Princess WayCommercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.