Church of St Michael & all Angels (Manselton Parish Church) is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. House.

Church of St Michael & all Angels (Manselton Parish Church)

WRENN ID
eastward-pillar-pearl
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
House
Address
Church of St Michael & all Angels (Manselton Parish Church), Cwmbwrla
OS grid reference
SS 651 952
Coordinates
51.63965, -3.94963
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Michael and All Angels, also known as Manselton Parish Church, is a Grade II listed building featuring a plain, undivided nave and chancel with vestries beneath, a south aisle (which was never built), an organ chamber, and a south porch. It is designed in the Perpendicular Gothic style.

The church has a twin-gabled front facing Manor Road, constructed with coursed rubble facings and Bath stone dressings, topped with slate roofs that have tiled crestings. The gable parapets feature a twin bellcote and a weathervane to the left, above a five-light traceried window, with a three-light window to the south. The building includes a plinth and hoodmouldings, with buttressed side elevations and two-light windows. There is a cross-gable with a three-light window at the east end, which houses the organ chamber, and a high east end featuring a five-light window along with a polygonal stair-tower in the angle.

Inside, the church has a simple layout with a five-bay arcade supported by polygonal piers. There is a blocked north arch that matches the arch leading to the organ chamber on the south side. The ceilings are ribbed and boarded, with paired angle corbels at the entrance to the chancel. The sedilia features foliage spandrels and paterae on the hoodmould. The walls are plain and whitewashed, with rere-arches to the window splays and a two-bay arcade facing the south aisle. The interior also contains a wooden lectern and pulpit.

Local climate

Church of St Michael & all Angels (Manselton Parish Church) 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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