Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chimney west of Vivian engine house
Landore, Swansea, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Industrial
- Date of designation
- 30 March 1987
- Locality
- Hafod
- Town
- Swansea
- Community
- Landore
- Unitary authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.63766, -3.93548
- Cadw reference
- 11696
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
Located on the slope to the west of the Vivian engine house and east of the former Swansea Canal.
History
Hafod Copperworks was established in 1810 by John Vivian and continued to be owned by the Vivian family until 1924 when it amalgamated with the adjacent Morfa Coppperworks. It was subsequently operated by Yorkshire Imperial Metals until it closed in 1980. The chimney dates from the late nineteenth century and probably served the steam boilers for the Vivian engine house, built 1860-2.
Exterior
A tall, tapering chimney stack, constructed of red brick. There is an octagonal plinth with a corbelled head and a circular shaft. The shaft has numerous iron bands, and a corbelled ring at its neck.
Reason for designation
Listed as an impressive Victorian industrial chimney and for group value with the listed buildings of the former Hafod and Morfa copperworks.
Nearby in the register
- Vivian engine houseIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Musgrave engine house and chimneyIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Hafod Copper Works Musgrave Engine and RollsCopper Worksunder 1 mi
- Boundary wall of former Hafod Copperworks canal docksIndustrialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.