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
11571
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
R C Church of St Joseph  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Castle  
Town
Swansea  
Locality
Greenhill  
Easting
265568  
Northing
194428  
Street Side
 
Location
Tall church building overlooking valley with St John’s Church, Hafod, opposite, long flank to street.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
1886-8. Designed by Pugin and Pugin, architects of London (cost £10,000).  

Exterior
Plan form of apsidal chancel flanked by side chapels, 7-bay aisled nave with W chapel and baptistry, NW polygonal tower with spire, twin W porches. Decorated style. Coursed bull-nosed masonry. Bath stone dressings, red Dumfries stone to nave piers and responds. Modern pantile roof. W front with finial to gable parapet, small arched opening over 4-light Geometric traceried window, flanking buttresses, lancets to NW turret with openwork timber-bellcote and spirelet; twin pointed doorways with traceried tympana to W porches, figure of St Joseph in tabernacle. Buttressed clerestory with 3-light traceried windows and to outer gable of SW baptistry; triple lancets to buttressed aisles; openwork finials to angles of E nave gable. E end with lower traceried clerestory and 3 light E window under corbelled gable with finial. Wheel window and headstops to overlapping chapel at SE side. Enclosed churchyard with tall Celtic Cross War Memorial (1919) at W end. Presbytery joined to E end.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
 

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