Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 March 1987. Public house. 2 related planning applications.

Church of St Luke

WRENN ID
outer-bastion-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 March 1987
Type
Public house
Address
Church of St Luke, Cwmbwrla, SA5 8BD
OS grid reference
SS 648 948
Coordinates
51.63634, -3.95412
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Luke is a Grade II listed building featuring a chancel flanked by a south vestry and a north organ chamber, along with an aisled nave that has transverse gables over the aisles and a southwest tower-porch topped with a spire. The exterior is constructed of snecked rubble with freestone dressings and slate roofs, showcasing parapetted gables and stepped buttresses. The west front is adorned with a crucifix finial and has triple cemented vents above a wide four-light Geometric window. There is a projecting doorway beneath a cill band, featuring a single order pointed arch flanked by lancets and boarded doors. The left aisle ends with a pair of lancets. The tower has a polygonal stair-tower with twin lancet bell-openings and nook shafts, a plain parapet, and a pyramidal spire with a weathervane. The porch opens to the side, and the aisles are decorated with plate tracery under hoodmoulds, while the chancel has a three-light traceried window. A railed forecourt is situated above the road, making the church a prominent landmark on the hillside at Cwmdu.

Inside, the church has a simple hall layout with a four-bay nave supported by round piers in the arcades and lower arches at the west end. The nave features an open trussed roof with stone corbels, while the chancel and transverse aisle bays have boarded waggon roofs. The chancel arch is supported by twin shafts leading to corbels.

Local climate

Church of St Luke 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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