Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Tower at SW corner of churchyard, attached to Tredegar Arms
Graig, Newport, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bassaleg, Newport, Graig, designated on 22 August 2003.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- No class recorded
- Date of designation
- 22 August 2003
- Locality
- Bassaleg
- Town
- Newport
- Community
- Graig
- Unitary authority
- Newport
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.57765, -3.04479
- Cadw reference
- 81806
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
Situated attached to E end wall of Tredegar Arms Inn in Bassaleg.
History
Later C19 tower, purpose unknown, linked by short length of churchyard wall to lychgate, and attached to Tredegar Arms.
Exterior
Tower, purple squared rubble stone with grey sandstone ashlar dressings. Two storeys with string courses and embattled parapet on S and E sides, E side with 2 truncated chimneys. Front has depressed-arched chamfered doorway to left and narrow chamfered rectangular light to right on ground floor, and first floor 3-light mullion-and-transom window.
Interior
Interior gutted and roofless, built against E end wall of the inn.
Reason for designation
Included as a Victorian tower of group value with the lychgate and churchyard walls.
Nearby in the register
- Lychgate, churchyard walls and railings to Church of Saint BasilNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Coach House to W of the Tredegar Arms InnNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- The CottageNo class recordedunder 1 mi
- Church of Saint BasilReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.