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
11684
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
30/03/1987  
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987  
Name of Property
Dinas Noddfa Baptist Chapel  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Swansea  
Community
Landore  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
266045  
Northing
196157  
Street Side
 
Location
Very prominently sited on terraced hillside overlooking River Tawe and Landore railway viaduct to SE.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
 

Exterior
1884. Designed by George Morgan (cost £3,500). Italian Romanesque style. 2 storey and attic gabled front; bullnosed facings, freestone dressings, crocketted finial to gable parapet with kneelers, slate roof, corbel table to eaves. Three recessed bays with bracket cornices, stepped over 7-bay arcade; traceried wheel window in arched frame with nook shafts and foliage capitals. Bipartite arched windows to sides with nook shafts and capitals, super-arches with tiny oculi to upper level. Paired, gabled entrance porches to centre with Celtic cross finials, stepped corbelling, nailhead and chevron decoration to arches, cusped oculi to tympana, heavy nook shafts with crocket capitals. Steps up to twin panelled doors. 2-storey side elevations with 2-light plate tracery windows to upper level, segmental pairs to ground floor, linked hoodmouldings. Transverse hall range to rear. Original forecourt walls, piers and railings; "VR" wall-box for letters set into left hand pier.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Said to retain a fine, galleried interior.  

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