R C Church of St Joseph is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Gate lodge.
R C Church of St Joseph
- WRENN ID
- muted-bonework-barley
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Gate lodge
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
Plan form of apsidal chancel flanked by side chapels, 7-bay aisled nave with W chapel and baptistry, NW polygonal tower with spire, twin W porches. Decorated style.
Coursed bull-nosed masonry. Bath stone dressings, red Dumfries stone to nave piers and responds. Modern pantile roof. W front with finial to gable parapet, small arched opening over 4-light Geometric traceried window, flanking buttresses, lancets to NW turret with openwork timber-bellcote and spirelet; twin pointed doorways with traceried tympana to W porches, figure of St Joseph in tabernacle.
Buttressed clerestory with 3-light traceried windows and to outer gable of SW baptistry; triple lancets to buttressed aisles; openwork finials to angles of E nave gable. E end with lower traceried clerestory and 3 light E window under corbelled gable with finial. Wheel window and headstops to overlapping chapel at SE side.
Enclosed churchyard with tall Celtic Cross War Memorial (1919) at W end. Presbytery joined to E end.
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