St Andrew's United Reformed Church is a Grade II listed building in the Swansea local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 30 May 1975. Church.

St Andrew's United Reformed Church

WRENN ID
quartered-spindle-fern
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Swansea
Constituency
Swansea West MP: Torsten Bell (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
30 May 1975
Type
Church
Address
St Andrew's United Reformed Church, Castle
OS grid reference
SS 648 928
Coordinates
51.61861, -3.95286
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

St Andrew's United Reformed Church features a twin-towered Gothic facade that stands prominently above the street. The exterior is made of snecked rubble with pale stone dressings and a slate roof. The church has four-storey square towers that transition to octagonal shapes in the upper stages, adorned with lancet bell-openings, pilasters, set-offs, and pinnacles that rise through crenellated parapets. The lower storeys are flanked by panelled buttresses, leading to a wide gable that has a cut-down finial above a cusped oculus and a large five-light Geometric window. This window is connected by a cill-band to outer two-light transomed windows. The central entrance features square-headed Tudor doorways with dripmoulds and carved spandrels, along with boarded doors that have strapwork hinges.

The church's six-bay flank elevations maintain a similar style, complete with crenellated parapets. At the rear, there is a lower three-bay church hall. The property is enclosed by boundary walls that have panelled pinnacles on the piers, and there is an elevated forecourt with steps leading up to the entrance.

Local climate

St Andrew's United Reformed Church 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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