Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Whitson Church
Goldcliff, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II*
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 1 March 1963
- Locality
- Whitson
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Goldcliff
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.54643, -2.89444
- Cadw reference
- 2943
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
In churchyard reached by drive approximately 300m E of junction with Whitson Common Road.
History
Medieval church with C12 origins, later medieval tower, C19 porch, and restoration. Nave, chancel, S porch, W tower.
Exterior
Yellow-brown stone (but some red stone dressings and quoins to tower), stone tile and slate roofs. Nave and porch have stone tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses; C19 porch doorway, nave doorway Norman with flanking shafts with foliage capitals. To L of porch, C19 window of 2 cusped lights, similar 3-light window to R. Buttress and chimney between nave and chancel which has small and larger C19 windows. East window is 3-light C19 Decorated/Perpendicular. N side of nave has 2- and 3-light windows as S. Tower has NE polygonal stair turret with conical stone roof; top stage has windows of 2 cusped lights under hoodmoulds; W face of tower has 2-light Perpendicular style window, and arched doorway.
Reason for designation
Graded II* as church with much surviving medieval fabric.
Nearby in the register
- Little Porton ByreAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Little Porton CottageDomesticunder 1 mi
- Samson CourtDomesticunder 1 mi
- Whitson FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.