Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
11553
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Glynn Vivian Art Gallery
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Swansea
Easting
265503
Northing
193463
Street Side
Location
Description
Broad Class
Recreational
Period
History
Dated 1909. Designed by Glendinning Moxham, architect of Swansea. Edwardian Baroque.
Exterior
Low and wide symmetrical composition with advanced, pedimented and pavilions, elaborate Baroque doorpiece to plain centre. Red brick, ashlar dressings (banded to angles). 2-storey ends with rusticated pilasters and Corinthian columns in antis supporting entablature of dentilled pediments; recessed tripartite windows (paired in centre) with small-pane glazing, swagged heraldic shields over ground floor, cills dropped through rusticated plinth. Uniform 5-bay centre with pitched glazed roof behind blocking-course with bold dentilled cornice. Frieze inscribed "MDCCCCIX". Architraved cross-windows with keyblocks linked to cornices and aprons, small-pane glazing. Doorcase with open and broken pediment, florid cartouche with cherubs, keyblock to round-arched entrance, blocked columns with triglyph frieze to doorpiece. Low area walls swept up, steps to double panelled door.
Modern extension (1974) to left is not of special interest.
Interior
Interior has monumental top-lit entrance hall with balustraded gallery cantilevered on massive volutes, pilasters below. Imperial staircase with balustraded handrails to centre left under archway with swagged, cherubic keyblock. Segmental arched and glazed ceiling with massive volutes as before, panelled tympana, fine bracket cornice. Architraves timber doorcases, tablets to friezes with cornices over, panelled reveals; arched bays along ground floor entrance wall.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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