Church of St Thomas is a Grade I listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. A Medieval Church.
Church of St Thomas
- WRENN ID
- sombre-basalt-bramble
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- Church
- Period
- Medieval
- Address
- Church of St Thomas, Redwick
- OS grid reference
- ST 412 841
- Coordinates
- 51.55299, -2.84927
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Thomas is a Grade I listed building constructed from brown-yellow, grey, and buff stone, topped with slate roofs. It features a nave, north and south aisles, a central tower, a chancel, and a south porch. The tower is three stages high, with a crenellated parapet and an interior stair located at the southwest corner. It has two-light Decorated windows on the bell stage and similar windows on the middle stage, although the west window is a single-light. The clerestorey includes two 2-light windows on both the north and south sides.
The south porch rises above the eaves of the aisle and has a castellated and arcaded parapet. The ashlar front has a door arch with some remaining trefoil panelled decoration. To the right of the doorway, there is a mark recording the height of the great flood of 1606/7. Inside the late 15th-century porch, there are defaced head corbels, benches, and a simple arched entrance doorway with a trefoil niche above. On either side of the porch, there is a single 2-light square-headed window. The west end features a four-light 19th-century Perpendicular window, beneath which is a doorway with enriched jambs decorated with worn alternating flowers and lions' heads.
On the north side of the aisle, there is a doorway with a three-light Perpendicular window to the left and a two-light square-headed window to the right. The north side of the chancel has a two-light Decorated window, while the south side has a three-light square-headed window and a lower two-light square-headed window. The east window is an unusual three-light Decorated window with an undulating head, reticulated tracery, and a hoodmould with tiny head stops.
Near the churchyard gates, there is a socket and part of the shaft of a medieval cross, alongside a much-restored cross located on the green outside. The church has a three-bay aisle with hexagonal shafts and an arch-braced roof. The chancel and tower arch are low and feature a largely 19th-century roodloft. The chancel has a simple boarded roof. The early English font has a square bowl with scallops, supported on a central pillar with a water-holding base and four corner shafts.
Local climate
Church of St Thomas 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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