Church of St John the Baptist is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Church.

Church of St John the Baptist

WRENN ID
vacant-tallow-holly
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Church
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Plan of twin aisles to nave and E end. Snecked rubble facings, Bath stone dressings, slate roofs. E front has parapeted gables with cross-finials flanked by slender buttresses (finials to right gable only), linked hoodmoulds, cill band and plinths, 6 and 7-light traceried windows.

7-bay N elevation with buttresses linked by depressed super-arches, Y-tracery windows to centre bays, moulded doorway to right. 3-bay settlement SE chapel with large 4-light Y-tracery windows.

Twin gabled W front with canopied bell-cote on head corbels to right, rectangular frame to doorway set in pointed frame with quatrefoil. Paired 4-light traceried windows with centre buttress to left.

Interior has undivided chancel and nave with S organ chamber/vestry and S aisle. Open collar-beam roofs with ornamental tie-rods, moulded purlins and wind braces. Panelled arch over polygonal chancel responds. 5 bay arcade with polygonal columns and heavily-moulded 4-centred arches, panelled screen to vestry, rere-arches and nook shafts to windows. Furnishings include highly carved Gothic choir stalls.

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