Gardens · South Wales
Singleton Abbey
Singleton Abbey — a garden in wales-south, United Kingdom.
Nigel Davies — CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons licence
Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2.5 h
- Best time of year
- Spring & summer (Apr–Sep)
About
Singleton Abbey is a garden of interest in wales-south, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
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.
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Background
History
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. The house survives, with limited losses, much as it appears in the engraved plates of the book. The…
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- Coordinates
- 51.6106, -3.9767
- Address
- Singleton Park
- Official site
- www.egypt.swan.ac.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q7524097 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Singleton Abbey (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Singleton Abbey?
- Singleton Abbey is in South Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 51.6106°, -3.9767°.
- Who owns Singleton Abbey?
- Singleton Abbey is owned by Swansea University.