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Latitude: 51.5831 / 51°34'59"N
Longitude: -2.9934 / 2°59'36"W
OS Eastings: 331268
OS Northings: 187601
OS Grid: ST312876
Mapcode National: GBR J5.CKRL
Mapcode Global: VH7BD.2GDS
Plus Code: 9C3VH2M4+6M
Entry Name: St Paul’s Church, including forecourt walls and railings
Listing Date: 2 May 1980
Last Amended: 31 March 2000
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 3013
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Also known as: St Paul's Church, Newport
St. Paul's Church, Newport
Saint Paul's Church, Newport
St Paul's Church, including forecourt walls and railings
ID on this website: 300003013
Location: On corner with Palmyra Place.
County: Newport
Community: Stow Hill
Community: Stow Hill
Built-Up Area: Newport
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Church building
By T H Wyatt, 1835. Ceiling 1842, by Wyatt. Refurbished 1859 by G Clarke of Newport. Redecoration and new porches by Habershon and Fawckner 1888. The church was consecrated in 1836, and was then the only church within the town of Newport. Cost £5000, raised by public subscription. Closed for worship 1991.
Early English style. Rock-faced coursed stone with ashlar dressings; slate roofs. Commercial Street elevation has central octagonal tower and spire; stepped buttresses run up as pinnacles; lancets to bell stage of tower. Lower part of tower is open porch with tall Gothic arches; vaulted ceiling to porch with ribs and floral bosses. Gothic entrance doorways; stepped lancet to rear. Tower flanked by 2-light windows. Side elevation of 9 bays; end bays have steep gable with blind window. Tall 2-light window to each bay; low porch in second and last bays. West elevation of 5 bays has tall 2-light windows in outer bays, central polygonal apse.
Aligned with chancel at E (Commercial Road) end of church. Broad, spacious undivided interior. Flat ribbed and boarded ceiling with wall brackets. Gallery to W end on iron columns has pierced wooden frontal. Apse below was bapstitery. Shallow chancel beneath tall arch flanked by lower arches; 5-light stepped lancet window with stained glass; single lancet in outer bays. Doors to flanking vestries at E end. Seating and organ removed.
Rare example of church in Wales from late Georgian period, embodying architectural arrangements from time before Pugin and Camden movement dominated.
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