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Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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