Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Parish Church of St Paul
Landore, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Locality
- Cwm
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.64653, -3.93656
- Cadw reference
- 11683
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
Set into hillside beside new dual carriageway, tall E end to Neath Road.
History
Ca. 1903 (date on rainwater heads). Perpendicular style with Arts and Crafts influence. Plan of chancel with undercroft, 2-storey SE vestry range with octagonal bell-tower in angle, N chapel, aisled nave with N and S porches.
Exterior
Snecked facings, red sandstone dressings, slate roofs, gable parapets with E crucifix finial, corner buttresses with set-offs. 5-light traceried E window with blind panelling below transom, cill band and weathercourse over 3-part recessed undercroft window with segmental head. Bell-tower has spire with weathervane behind crenellated parapet, linked ogee-headed hood moulds to bell openings, arched doorway in pointed recess. 3-light clerestory windows under segmental arches, tripartite cusped lancets to aisles, image niche over S door with traceried spandrals, double boarded doors up steps. 3-bay W front with 2-light traceried windows and slender buttresses.
Interior
5-bay nave with octagonal piers and pointed arcades (rest of interior not seen).
Nearby in the register
- Landore New QuayQuayunder 1 mi
- Dinas Noddfa Baptist ChapelReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Siloh Chapel (English) Sunday SchoolReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Old Siloh Chapel (English)Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.