Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Stow Hill Railway Tunnel
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Stow Hill, Newport, designated on 31 March 2000.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Transport
- Date of designation
- 31 March 2000
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58275, -3.00444
- Cadw reference
- 23140
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1636 map "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1636 · Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ... (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1865 · England and Wales. England No. 6. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1895 · Sheet 11. Ordnance Survey of England and Wales. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1906 · 249 Newport (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1913 · Sheet 102. Newport. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Takes railway line under Stow Hill from a point S of Newport Station, emerging near Llandaff Street.
History
Bears the date 1848. Engineered by Brunel for the South Wales Railway. The South Wales Railway was, with the Chester & Holyhead Railway along the North Wales Coast, the most important of the early routes into Wales. In the early C20, the line was doubled, and a second tunnel built parallel to this work, on its W side.
Exterior
The easterly of the 2 tunnels under Stow Hill. This tunnel runs from a point about 450m SW of Newport Station (just N of Windsor Terrace) for around 650m, emerging about 150m NW of Llandaff Street. Both N and S portals consist of round-headed arch of heavily rock-faced voussoirs, showing influence of Italian C16 architecture. Set in walling of coursed rock-faced masonry.
Interior
The interior of the tunnel is faced in stone. Repairs in sprayed concrete 1987.
Reason for designation
Important early railway structure from grand project of South Wales Railway.
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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.