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
11582
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop)
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Waterfront / Y Glannau
Town
Locality
Easting
266003
Northing
192683
Street Side
Location
At the dock end of the street close to the Pump House.
Description
Broad Class
Commercial
Period
History
Opened 1868, later alterations. Designed by B Bucknall, architect of Swansea. Late Romanesque.
Exterior
Plan of apsidal chancel with porch and vestry in angles, taller single cell nave (now subdivided), W bellcote (partly taken down). Rubble facings, freestone dressings; tarred slate roofs, hipped over chancel, gable parapet with kneelers to nave (cut-down stack to rear). Corbel table to eaves of chancel and rear nave, linked nailhead, modern glazing and box-dormer to rear roof. Gloucester Place elevation with replaced windows and modern wide entry. Assorted additions to N end with brick arched doorway, gabled 3-light dormer with diamond tympanum under cusped bargeboards, cut-down buttresses to former bellcote.
Interior
Interior is largely modernised and retains only boarded, pointed nave ceiling and round chancel arch with chamfered imposts.
Reason for designation
Group value.
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