Singleton Abbey
Singleton Abbey (Welsh: Abaty Singleton) is a large, mainly 19th-century mansion in Swansea, Wales. Today, the buildings are used to house administration offices for Swansea University. They can be found at the eastern end of the Swansea University Singleton Park campus.
History
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The nucleus of the house is a neo-classical villa, octagonal in plan, erected in 1784 under the name of Marino by Edward King, a customs official. In 1817 this was bought by the industrialist John Henry Vivian, who added rectangular one-bay extensions to either side. In 1823 Vivian commissioned the architect P. F. Robinson to re-model the house in the neo-gothic style. Work started in 1827, and a decade later Robinson published Domestic Architecture in the Tudor Style, a monograph in all but name on Singleton Abbey. The house then served as residence of the Vivian family for several years.
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The house survives, with limited losses, much as it appears in the engraved plates of the book. The back stairs, on the axis of the south front, and the ground-floor room in the centre of the south front, with a bowed inner end, survive from the original house of 1784.[citation needed]
In 1919 the 2nd Lord Swansea sold Singleton Abbey to Swansea Corporation. In 1920 the Corporation rented and in 1923 sold the house and the nucleus of the estate to the University College of Swansea, which made the Abbey its headquarters.[1]
References
- ^ Newman (2004)
External links
- Gathering the Jewels: Singleton Abbey, Swansea
- Swansea University: Singleton Abbey
Reading
- Newman, John; Hughes, Stephen; Ward, Anthony (2004). Glamorgan. New Haven and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 0-300-09629-1.
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- Chancellor Dame Jean Thomas
- Vice-chancellor Paul Boyle
- Pro Chancellor Sir Roger Spencer Jones
- Council
- Senate
- Court
- Singleton park campus
- Bay campus
- Faculty of Humanities and Social
- Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Science
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- The College, Swansea University
- School of Aerospace, Civil, Electrical, General and Mechanical Engineering
- School of Biosciences, Geography and Physics
- School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
- School of Mathematics and Computer Science
- School of Health and Social Care
- School of Psychology
- Swansea University Medical School
- School of Culture and Communication
- Hillary Rodham Clinton School of Law
- School of Management
- School of Social Sciences
- Singleton Abbey
- Fulton House
- Grove Building
- Wallace Building
- Taliesin Arts Centre
- Library
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