Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Chimney west of Vivian engine house
Landore, Swansea, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Hafod, Swansea, Landore, designated on 30 March 1987.
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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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
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.