Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bethel Chapel
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58648, -2.99714
- Cadw reference
- 23125
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
Almost opposite School Lane; on corner with Wesley Place.
History
Probably 1884, by Habershon and Fawckner, architects, of Newport.
Exterior
Chapel in Decorated Gothic style. Pennant stone with bathstone dressings. Elevation to Stow Hill has tower and spire to L. Bathstone spire with lucarnes; tower has bathstone pinnacles, bell stage with two 2-light windows to each face. Gothic doorway. To R of tower, bay with 2-light Gothic window at upper level, two-light window with shouldered arches to lower level. To R of this, projecting gabled bay with 3-light Geometrical window over window of 3 shouldered lights. To R again, large gabled bay with 5-light window with Geometrical tracery, above two windows of 3 shouldered lights. Simpler mullioneows to basement. Elevation to Wesley Place has 2 doors with 2 trefoil windows between; above this, tripartite Decorated style window; small quatrefoil window above. To L of this, block with single doorway and 2-light Geometrical window above.
Reason for designation
Impressive Gothic chapel by prominent firm of local architects.
Nearby in the register
- Zanzibar ClubReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 25 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Stow HillDefenceunder 1 mi
- 29 Stow HillDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.