St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. House.

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

WRENN ID
silver-quoin-elm
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
House
Address
St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop), Waterfront / Y Glannau
OS grid reference
SS 660 926
Coordinates
51.61698, -3.93684
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St. Nicholas Seamen's Church, now known as Swansea Arts Workshop, is a Grade II listed building. It features a plan with an apsidal chancel, a porch, and a vestry at the angles, along with a taller single cell nave that has been subdivided. The church has a west bellcote, which is partly taken down. The exterior is constructed with rubble facings and freestone dressings, topped with tarred slate roofs. The chancel has a hipped roof, while the nave has a gable parapet with kneelers and a cut-down stack at the rear. There is a corbel table at the eaves of both the chancel and the rear nave, along with linked nailhead detailing. The rear roof features modern glazing and a box dormer. The elevation facing Gloucester Place has replaced windows and a modern wide entry. The north end has various additions, including a brick arched doorway, a gabled three-light dormer with a diamond tympanum under cusped bargeboards, and cut-down buttresses from the former bellcote.

Inside, the church has been largely modernized, retaining only the boarded, pointed nave ceiling and a round chancel arch with chamfered imposts.

Local climate

St. Nicholas Seamen's Church (Swansea Arts Workshop) sits in one of the wettest parts of the UK, with an average of 1,380 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 97% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 98% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 5 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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