Latitude: 51.6363 / 51°38'10"N
Longitude: -3.9541 / 3°57'14"W
OS Eastings: 264864
OS Northings: 194868
OS Grid: SS648948
Mapcode National: GBR WQB.BP
Mapcode Global: VH4K9.D4ZD
Plus Code: 9C3RJ2PW+G9
Entry Name: Church of St Luke
Listing Date: 30 March 1987
Last Amended: 30 March 1987
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 11682
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: St Luke's Church, Swansea
St Luke's Chrch, Cwmbwrla
St.Luke's Church, Stepney Street
ID on this website: 300011682
Location: Set on a terraced site across the slope, and looking down to A483 roundabout at Libanus Chapel.
County: Swansea
Community: Cwmbwrla
Community: Cwmbwrla
Built-Up Area: Swansea
Traditional County: Glamorgan
Tagged with: Church building
Dated 1889. By E Bruce Vaughan, architect of Cardiff. Plain C13 Gothic.
Plan; chancel flanked by S vestry and N organ chamber, aisled nave with transverse gables to aisles, SW tower-porch with spire.
Snecked rubble facings, freestone dressings, slate roofs, parapetted gables, stepped buttresses. W front with crucifix finial, triple cemented vents over wide 4-light Geometric window; projecting doorway under cill band with single order pointed arch flanked by lancets, boarded doors. Pair of lancets to end of left aisle. Polygonal stair-tower to lower stages f tower with twin lancet bell-openings and nook shafts, plain parapet and pyramidal spire with weathervane. Porch opening to side. Aisles with plate tracery under hoodmoulds, 3 light traceried chancel window. Railed forecourt above road.
Prominent landmark on hillside at Cwmdu.
Simple hall church interior with 4-bay nave, round piers to arcades, lower arches at W end. Open trussed nave roof with stone corbels, boarded waggon roofs to chancel and to transveres aisle bays. Chancel arch with twin shafts to corbels.
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