St. David's Priory R.C. Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. A Medieval Church.
St. David's Priory R.C. Church
- WRENN ID
- last-plinth-briar
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
St. David's Priory Roman Catholic Church is a late 13th-century building featuring a short chancel with side aisles and a five-bay aisled nave. It includes dormer clerestory windows, south porches, a south vestry, confessionals, and a link building to the presbytery at the southwest.
The church is constructed with dark snecked stone facings and pale sandstone dressings, topped with slate roofs and tiled ridges. It has stepped buttresses and a steep east gable with a parapet, a Gothic oculus, and a five-light traceried window with impaled trefoil lights and nook shafts. The aisle windows are three-light, with a vertical joint at the north aisle. An open bellcote is situated over the chancel arch, along with gabled ventilators and two-light timber dormers that feature cusped bargeboards and diamond leaded glazing. The low aisle walls have two-light windows, with plate tracery in the south aisle and different tracery in the north aisle. A cusped arch leads to the gabled north porch. The west front has a tiled polygonal stair tower flanked by paired cusped lights under strainer arches, while the south aisle is overlapped by the presbytery.
The church has a railed forecourt with shouldered arches leading to stone gateways. Inside, there are scissor-braced trusses on long wall-posts in the chancel, and arcades leading to the side chapels, which have pitched ceilings. The tall chancel arch features head-stops and alternating polygonal and round moulded piers with crocket and acanthus leaves at the northwest corner. The roof mirrors that of the chancel, and the interior includes panelled dados, a timber west gallery and screens, and boarded aisle roofs with thin ribs.
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