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

Church of St Jude & Church Hall

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

Description

Church flanked by lower vestries, N transept, aisled nave with NW porch. Church hall under. Snecked rubble, freestone dressings including banding, slate roofs with crucifix finials. W front with grouped, traceried windows of 2 and 3 lights between flat buttresses. S aisle gabled front with twin Geometric windows under quatrefoil oculus. Parapeted gables, pilaster buttresses to clerestory with traceried lights, bar tracery to aisles, linked hoodmoulds. Gabled NW porch with paterae on Gothic mouldings of arched entrance, boarded doors. Second pointed doorway in angle of transept. Plain 2-light windows to basement (church hall), rubble retaining walls, piers and area railings set high at road level with flying platforms to upper doors.

3-light transept windows with taller octagonal stair turret clasping E angle, panelled canopies with cusped bell-openings. Flying buttresses over low vestry and porch to E wall, 5-light traceried window with impaled trefoils, lateral doorway reached by steps up.

Foundation stones dated 1905 and 1913.

Well-proportioned 3-bay interior, round piers, head-stops to hoodmoulds. Paired clerestory windows with shafts to rere-arches. Tall chancel arch on respond shafts with foliage capitals at cill based level. Tall N arch for organ, boarded ceiling under, screens to side chapels. Panelled sedilia. Ribbed and boarded wagon roofs to centre and S aisles, lean-to N aisle roof.

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