Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
2943
Building Number
Grade
II*
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
01/03/1963
Date of Amendment
31/10/1996
Name of Property
Whitson Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Newport
Community
Goldcliff
Town
Newport
Locality
Whitson
Easting
338073
Northing
183439
Street Side
Location
In churchyard reached by drive approximately 300m E of junction with Whitson Common Road.
Description
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
Period
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.
Interior
Reason for designation
Graded II* as church with much surviving medieval fabric.
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