Church Micro 5046...Swansea - St James' Traditional Geocache
Church Micro 5046...Swansea - St James'
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Another in our series of Church Micros in the South Wales area.
Not within the Church precincts, so please don't search in the grounds.
On street parking available nearby, area can be very busy so stealth will be required,
BYOP and tweezers.
St. James' on Walter Road was first built in 1867 as a Chapel of Ease for St. Mary's Church, at this time Swansea was still comparatively small, with the ruins of its medieval castle and town defences as a legacy of the past, and with its central Parish Church at St. Mary's.
Edward Burnard Squire who was Vicar of St Mary's (1846 to 1876) was keenly aware of the social problems of the day, concerned about the conditions which he encountered in the town centre he became deeply involved in social and educational work, fostering new National Schools in Oxford Street, the Ragged School, and later the Parochial Schools in the Sandfields.
Squire regarded the foundation of a daughter Church, St James', as a contribution to the life of the more prosperous people in his parish, and he placed great emphasis on the fact that he would soon be seeking their support for his future plans for the poorer areas of his parish.
St. James' briefly became the home of St. Mary's Congregation when St. Mary's was destroyed during the Second World War.
When, in 1985, Bishop Vaughan weighed up the changes which could be achieved in the Uplands, he made St James' an independent Parish in its own right
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