Latitude: 51.6347 / 51°38'4"N
Longitude: -3.9415 / 3°56'29"W
OS Eastings: 265731
OS Northings: 194657
OS Grid: SS657946
Mapcode National: GBR WS8.V0
Mapcode Global: VH4K9.M5NQ
Plus Code: 9C3RJ3M5+VC
Entry Name: Church of St John the Baptist
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11601
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: Church of St.John The Baptist,Hafod Odo Street
ID on this website: 300011601
Location: Set in a railed churchyard with twin E gables facing down Graham Street; W front overlooking valley with St Joseph’s Roman Catholic Church opposite.
County: Swansea
Community: Landore (Glandŵr)
Community: Landore
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Church building Parish
1878-80. By H Woodyer, architect of Guildford; D Morgan, contractor of Swansea. Original scheme included 3-aisled church with tall SW tower. Perpendicular style.
Plan of twin aisles to nave and E end. Snecked rubble facings, Bath stone dressings, slate roofs. E front has parapeted gables with cross-finials flanked by slender buttresses (finials to right gable only), linked hoodmoulds, cill band and plinths, 6 and 7-light traceried windows.
7-bay N elevation with buttresses linked by depressed super-arches, Y-tracery windows to centre bays, moulded doorway to right. 3-bay settlement SE chapel with large 4-light Y-tracery windows.
Twin gabled W front with canopied bell-cote on head corbels to right, rectangular frame to doorway set in pointed frame with quatrefoil. Paired 4-light traceried windows with centre buttress to left.
Interior has undivided chancel and nave with S organ chamber/vestry and S aisle. Open collar-beam roofs with ornamental tie-rods, moulded purlins and wind braces. Panelled arch over polygonal chancel responds. 5 bay arcade with polygonal columns and heavily-moulded 4-centred arches, panelled screen to vestry, rere-arches and nook shafts to windows. Furnishings include highly carved Gothic choir stalls.
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