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
11646
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Church of St Jude & Church Hall
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Castle
Town
Locality
Easting
264882
Northing
193480
Street Side
Location
In a steep hillside position with side to road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Construction of church hall 1904-6, church completed 1913-15. Designed by E Bruce Vaughan, architect of Cardiff. Geometric Gothic.
Exterior
Church flanked by lower vestries, N transept, aisled nave with NW porch. Church hall under. Snecked rubble, freestone dressings including banding, slate roofs with crucifix finials. W front with grouped, traceried windows of 2 and 3 lights between flat buttresses. S aisle gabled front with twin Geometric windows under quatrefoil oculus. Parapeted gables, pilaster buttresses to clerestory with traceried lights, bar tracery to aisles, linked hoodmoulds. Gabled NW porch with paterae on Gothic mouldings of arched entrance, boarded doors. Second pointed doorway in angle of transept. Plain 2-light windows to basement (church hall), rubble retaining walls, piers and area railings set high at road level with flying platforms to upper doors.
3-light transept windows with taller octagonal stair turret clasping E angle, panelled canopies with cusped bell-openings. Flying buttresses over low vestry and porch to E wall, 5-light traceried window with impaled trefoils, lateral doorway reached by steps up.
Foundation stones dated 1905 and 1913.
Interior
Well-proportioned 3-bay interior, round piers, head-stops to hoodmoulds. Paired clerestory windows with shafts to rere-arches. Tall chancel arch on respond shafts with foliage capitals at cill based level. Tall N arch for organ, boarded ceiling under, screens to side chapels. Panelled sedilia. Ribbed and boarded wagon roofs to centre and S aisles, lean-to N aisle roof.
Reason for designation
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