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Latitude: 51.6392 / 51°38'21"N
Longitude: -3.9502 / 3°57'0"W
OS Eastings: 265143
OS Northings: 195176
OS Grid: SS651951
Mapcode National: GBR WQY.2G
Mapcode Global: VH4K9.H217
Plus Code: 9C3RJ2QX+MW
Entry Name: Manselton School
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11680
Building Class: Education
ID on this website: 300011680
Location: Occupying a large, prominent site between Manor Road and Cecil Street.
County: Swansea
Community: Cwmbwrla
Community: Cwmbwrla
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: School building
Dated 1900. Manselton U D School Board. Jacobethan style.
Open U-plan form to symmetrical S front with advanced entrance/stair-tower wings.
3 storeys and attics, 8 bays to centre. Snecked rubble facings, bullnosed quoins with incised angles, freestone dressings, tiled roofs. Recessed centre with slightly advanced and gabled outer bays with pedimented tops and Venetian window treatment to upper floor, keystone extended as gable pilaster; segmental headed dormers. Pedimented and panelled band over 1st floor architraves with scrolled aprons, plain ground floor windows. Mostly cross-windows with small panes and lower sashes. Pedimented doorcases in splayed angles to wings, polygonal stair turrets with pyramidal roofs, miniature cupolas with finials, cornice bands, oculi to top floor, aedicule treatment to 2nd floor windows.
Massive stone doorcases to outer porches, pedimented tops with scrolled supports. Splayed 5 storey angles with broken pediments and poloygonal finials rising from 3rd floor scrolled pediments as before. Twin gabled side elevations and advanced gabled bays to outer sides of plainer N front.
Small attached lodge(?) block on Cecil Street in similar style. Hipped tiled roof with domed cupola, segmental headed dormers, small-pane tripartite sashes. Basement entrance under "Manselton School Board SSB" tablet.
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