St Jude's Parish Church is a former Anglican church in

Mount Pleasant, Swansea Mount Pleasant is a suburban district of Swansea, Wales. The area is centred on the main road, called Mount Pleasant, immediately to the north of Swansea city centre, which connects the city centre to the Townhill and Mayhill districts to the nor ...

, Wales, UK, which closed in 2015 With its final service was held on the 8th of February, just a few months short of its centenary,. The present building was designed by

E. M. Bruce Vaughan Edwin Montgomery Bruce Vaughan (6 March 1856 – 13 June 1919), known as E. M. Bruce Vaughan, was an ecclesiastical architect from Cardiff, Wales. Biography Vaughan was born in Frederick Street, Cardiff and privately schooled in the town. He was ...

, and built in the years 1913–1915, on the site of an earlier church constructed of galvanised iron. In 1924 a new daughter church was built at Townhill to serve the developing estates at this end of the parish. In 1937 the parish of St Nicholas Townhill was carved out of St Jude's to serve this area. In 2015 Both St Jude's and St Nicholas were merged to make The Benefice of Swansea St Nicholas on the Hill and St Jude in St Nicholas Church Townhill and St Judes's church closed. St judes nave

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* * Anglican church buildings in Wales Saint Jude's Church {{UK-anglican-church-struct-stub