Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Victoria Road United Reformed Church
Stow Hill, Newport, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 2 January 1974
- Community
- Stow Hill
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.58404, -2.99594
- Cadw reference
- 3048
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 with Hill Street.
History
Dated "AD 1859".
Exterior
Classical, with flavour of the ancient Middle East. Two storeys and basement. Bath stone ashlar. Pedimented front to Hill Street of 5 bays; end bays blank and recessed; 3 middle windows are with spiral-fluted tall columns and arched heads. Ornate decoration to window openings with shoulders. Chanelled rustication to ground floor; quoins above. Side elevation to Victoria Road is of 6 bays with similar openings. Attached to rear in Victoria Road is single storey block in simple classical style; 3 windows, bathstone. Attached to L in Hill Street is 2-storey school/vestry block in Tudor style with first floor oriel window.
Interior
Ceiling of square panels formed by heavy ribs; central section elliptical with pierced decoration to ribs. U-plan gallery with wooden panelled frontal; polygonal columns. Organ set back behind elaborate triple arch. Broad pulpit below in style of circa 1700.
Reason for designation
Strikingly-sited impressive mid C19 chapel. Group value with adjacent listed buildings in Victoria Place.
Nearby in the register
- 14 Victoria Place, including attached railingsDomesticunder 1 mi
- 14 Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 Hill StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 13 Victoria PlaceDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.