Church of St Luke, Cwmbwrla, Swansea

Coordinates

Latitude: 51.6363 / 51°38'10"N

Longitude: -3.9541 / 3°57'14"W

OS Eastings: 264864

OS Northings: 194868

OS Grid: SS648948

Mapcode National: GBR WQB.BP

Mapcode Global: VH4K9.D4ZD

Plus Code: 9C3RJ2PW+G9

Entry Name: Church of St Luke

Listing Date: 30 March 1987

Last Amended: 30 March 1987

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 11682

Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary

Also known as: St Luke's Church, Swansea
St Luke's Chrch, Cwmbwrla
St.Luke's Church, Stepney Street

ID on this website: 300011682

Location: Set on a terraced site across the slope, and looking down to A483 roundabout at Libanus Chapel.

County: Swansea

Community: Cwmbwrla

Built-Up Area: Swansea

Traditional County: Glamorgan

Tagged with: Church building

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History

Dated 1889. By E Bruce Vaughan, architect of Cardiff. Plain C13 Gothic.

Exterior

Plan; chancel flanked by S vestry and N organ chamber, aisled nave with transverse gables to aisles, SW tower-porch with spire.

Snecked rubble facings, freestone dressings, slate roofs, parapetted gables, stepped buttresses. W front with crucifix finial, triple cemented vents over wide 4-light Geometric window; projecting doorway under cill band with single order pointed arch flanked by lancets, boarded doors. Pair of lancets to end of left aisle. Polygonal stair-tower to lower stages f tower with twin lancet bell-openings and nook shafts, plain parapet and pyramidal spire with weathervane. Porch opening to side. Aisles with plate tracery under hoodmoulds, 3 light traceried chancel window. Railed forecourt above road.

Prominent landmark on hillside at Cwmdu.

Interior

Simple hall church interior with 4-bay nave, round piers to arcades, lower arches at W end. Open trussed nave roof with stone corbels, boarded waggon roofs to chancel and to transveres aisle bays. Chancel arch with twin shafts to corbels.

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Church of St Luke

A Grade II Listed Building in Cwmbwrla, Swansea