Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
11683
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
30/03/1987
Date of Amendment
30/03/1987
Name of Property
Parish Church of St Paul
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Swansea
Community
Landore
Town
Locality
Cwm
Easting
266108
Northing
195969
Street Side
Location
Set into hillside beside new dual carriageway, tall E end to Neath Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
History
Ca. 1903 (date on rainwater heads). Perpendicular style with Arts and Crafts influence. Plan of chancel with undercroft, 2-storey SE vestry range with octagonal bell-tower in angle, N chapel, aisled nave with N and S porches.
Exterior
Snecked facings, red sandstone dressings, slate roofs, gable parapets with E crucifix finial, corner buttresses with set-offs. 5-light traceried E window with blind panelling below transom, cill band and weathercourse over 3-part recessed undercroft window with segmental head. Bell-tower has spire with weathervane behind crenellated parapet, linked ogee-headed hood moulds to bell openings, arched doorway in pointed recess. 3-light clerestory windows under segmental arches, tripartite cusped lancets to aisles, image niche over S door with traceried spandrals, double boarded doors up steps. 3-bay W front with 2-light traceried windows and slender buttresses.
Interior
5-bay nave with octagonal piers and pointed arcades (rest of interior not seen).
Reason for designation
Cadw : Full Report for Listed Buildings [ Records 1 of 1 ]
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