Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Havelock Street Chapel and attached Hall
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 14 August 1997
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58567, -2.99770
- Cadw reference
- 18804
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
On corner of Havelock Street and North Street.
History
Presbyterian chapel 1878, by Habershon, Pite, and Fawckner. Adjacent hall circa 1888.
Exterior
Chapel in Medieval style derived from North Italian examples. Brown, buff, and white stone, red and yellow brick dressings, slate roof. Round-headed openings have polychrome voussoirs forming pointed arch. Chapel is on basement as ground slopes away to rear of building. Gable and side elevations have row of arcading at eaves level. Gable entrance has projecting gabled porch with side windows, steps up to entrance doorway. Porch flanked by tall windows with slender shafts with floral capitals. Bathstone wheel window with inscription, "Presbyterian Church", and polychrome voussoirs. Polgonal corner turrets, that to L on floral corbel (pinnacles lost). Side elevation to North Street has 4 bays, tall 2-light windows with polychrome voussoirs. Basement windows with shouldered heads, doorway to N.
To R, lower attached hall in similar style and materials, but some dressings in brick rather than stone. Single storey. Palmette finial to gable. Central doorway flanked by tall windows, central wheel window above doorway.
Interior
Entrance opens onto lobby with Art-Nouveau style glass and timber-screen; stairs to gallery within body of chapel. U-plan gallery on spiral cast-iron columns with floral capitals; wooden gallery frontal. Panelled ceiling with cornice. Deep arch encloses organ with exposed pipes; pulpit and set fawr enclosure with wrought-iron work. Three banks of pews, those to sides canted.
Reason for designation
Listed as good mid C19 chapel in permanent polychromatic Italianate style.
Nearby in the register
- 37 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 35 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 31 Stow Hill, including forecourt walls, gatepiers, and railings.Domesticunder 1 mi
- 29 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.