Church of St Bridget is a Grade II listed building in the Monmouthshire local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 29 March 2000. A Medieval Church.

Church of St Bridget

WRENN ID
still-loft-rain
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Monmouthshire
Constituency
Monmouthshire MP: Catherine Fookes (Lab)
Country
Wales
Date first listed
29 March 2000
Type
Church
Period
Medieval
Address
Church of St Bridget, St Bride's Netherwent, Newport, Caerwent
OS grid reference
ST 428 895
Coordinates
51.6022, -2.8267
Source
Cadw listing

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Description

The Church of St Bridget features a west tower, nave with a north porch, and a chancel. It is built from fairly random limestone rubble, with the Victorian additions closely resembling the medieval tower but appearing slightly more mechanical. The nave has four bays, with three lancet windows on each wall and a gap on the north wall filled by the porch, which has a gabled roof and a pointed arch doorway with a dripmould. The structure includes clasping corner buttresses, a steeply pitched roof with raised stone verges, and a gable cross.

The chancel has a blind north wall, two lancets, and a pointed door on the south wall, along with a 2-light plate tracery window with a quatrefoil head in the east gable. Its roof matches the pitch of the nave but has a lower ridge line, with a coped gable and an apex cross. The tower consists of three stages; the ground stage features a pronounced batter at the base of the walls and includes a west lancet. The first stage has a single lancet for the ringing chamber on the north side, while the bell chamber has a single light on each face and a paired lancet on the west wall. The tower is topped with a steeply pitched saddle roof and coped gables.

The interior was not available for inspection during the resurvey but is believed to be plain, featuring Victorian benches and furnishings, as well as a Norman bowl font. The roof is supported by principal rafters, and the porch has a 15th-century type windbrace roof.

Local climate

Church of St Bridget receives an average of 860 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 62% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 63% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 64% of listed buildings. Of these, 15 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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