Unitarian Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. A Medieval Church.
Unitarian Church
- WRENN ID
- broken-slate-spring
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Unitarian Church, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 656 932
- Coordinates
- 51.62213, -3.9418
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Unitarian Church is a Grade II listed building featuring snecked rubble facings and freestone dressings, topped with slate roofs. It has a gable parapet adorned with a floriated cross and crenellated pinnacles, along with an oculus at the apex. The church boasts a large four-centred traceried Perpendicular window with a hoodmould. The porch, which was indicated as a vestry in an 1852 plan, has triple openings with depressed arches, chamfered imposts, and triple doorways that have pointed heads.
The northern front is tall and cemented, with a gable flanked by lean-to aisles. The eastern side is also cement rendered and set high above the Strand, featuring a Perpendicular clerestory and a slate roof with gable parapets that are topped by floriated crosses and carved kneelers.
The forecourt is enclosed by attractive spear railings that have a quatrefoil motif in the bands, and there is a scrolled lamp-bracket over the double gates.
Local climate
Unitarian 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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