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
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- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Swansea
- Constituency
- Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 30 March 1987
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Jude & Church Hall, Castle
- OS grid reference
- SS 648 934
- Coordinates
- 51.62387, -3.95333
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Jude and its associated Church Hall is a Grade II listed building. The church features lower vestries, a north transept, and an aisled nave with a northwest porch. The structure is constructed from snecked rubble with freestone dressings and has slate roofs topped with crucifix finials. The west front showcases grouped, traceried windows of two and three lights set between flat buttresses. The south aisle has a gabled front with twin geometric windows beneath a quatrefoil oculus. The building includes parapeted gables, pilaster buttresses supporting the clerestory with traceried lights, and bar tracery on the aisles, all linked by hoodmoulds. The gabled northwest porch features paterae on Gothic mouldings above an arched entrance with boarded doors, and there is a second pointed doorway at the angle of the transept. The basement, which houses the church hall, has plain two-light windows, and the rubble retaining walls are complemented by piers and area railings set high at road level, with flying platforms leading to the upper doors.
The transept is adorned with three-light windows and has a taller octagonal stair turret at the eastern angle, featuring panelled canopies with cusped bell-openings. Flying buttresses extend over the low vestry and porch on the east wall, which also has a five-light traceried window with impaled trefoils and a lateral doorway accessed by steps.
The foundation stones are dated 1905 and 1913. Inside, the church is well-proportioned with a three-bay layout, round piers, and head-stops on the hoodmoulds. The paired clerestory windows are supported by shafts leading to rere-arches. The tall chancel arch is set on respond shafts with foliage capitals at the cill level. There is a tall north arch for the organ, a boarded ceiling beneath, and screens leading to the side chapels. The interior also features panelled sedilia and ribbed, boarded wagon roofs in the centre and south aisles, while the north aisle has a lean-to roof.
Local climate
Church of St Jude & Church Hall 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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