Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Church of St Alban's On the Moors
Splott, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 8 April 1997
- Community
- Splott
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48634, -3.14948
- Cadw reference
- 18291
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
On corner of Swinton Street and Carlisle Street.
History
Built 1911 by F R Bates of Newport, architect.
Exterior
Pennant sandstone with bathstone dressings. Free perpendicular style. Cruciform plan with shouldered tower. Tower has pyramidal roof, castellated parapets, two 2-light windows to each face; to N and S, shoulders with castellated parapets; below these, transepts with 4-light windows. Sanctuary has two 2-light windows to S elevation. East end has 5-light window in free Perpendicular style; to N of this, roof slopes down to link with adjacent house (not included), two 3-light windows to each floor. Nave clerestorey of 5 bays has triple-arched windows recessed beneath hoods, below these, aisles have broad lancets. South aisle has polygonal chapel with castellated parapet, and broad 2-light window to each face of polygon.
West front has relief of pelican in tabernacle at gable apex, 5-light Perp window with outer pairs of lights steeped down around porch apex, all recessed under hood. West porch has gabled central section (saint in tabernacle) with broad arch with plain splays to narrower doorway flanked by lobbies with square windows. SW baptistery turret, two storeys, bathstone, octagonal with steep roof, castellated parapet, upper level has 2 windows to each face of polygon, lower level has cusped lancet to each face. North elevation similar to S but with gabled porch near W end of nave.
Interior
Broad nave with scissor-braced roof on carved stone corbels. Aisles with N and S central chapels, confessionals to N. Glazing to W porch. Former baptistery.
Broad segmental tower arches to sanctuary.
Reason for designation
Listed as relatively rare large-scale resourcefully-composed example of Roman Catholic church.
Nearby in the register
- Moorlands HotelCommercialunder 1 mi
- Church of St SaviourReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- War Memorial Cross at St Saviour’s ChurchNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- St.Saviours Vicarage (Including Cottage attached to SE) Splott Road.Religious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.