St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop), Castle (Castell), Swansea

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.617 / 51°37'1"N

Longitude: -3.9368 / 3°56'12"W

OS Eastings: 266003

OS Northings: 192683

OS Grid: SS660926

Mapcode National: GBR WT0.8W

Mapcode Global: VH4K9.QM48

Plus Code: 9C3RJ387+Q7

Entry Name: St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop)

Listing Date: 30 March 1987

Last Amended: 30 March 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11582

Building Class: Commercial

Also known as: St.Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop) Gloucester Place
Swansea Arts Workshop

ID on this website: 300011582

Location: At the dock end of the street close to the Pump House.

County: Swansea

Community: Castle (Castell)

Community: Waterfront / Y Glannau

Built-Up Area: Swansea

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Art gallery Artist-run space Former church

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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.

Reasons for Listing

Group value.

External Links

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St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop)

A Grade II Listed Building in Castle (Castell), Swansea