Former Anglican Chapel at St Woolos Cemetery is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 14 September 1999. Chapel.

Former Anglican Chapel at St Woolos Cemetery

WRENN ID
other-rafter-hemlock
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 1999
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Gothic style, contrasting with the Romanesque Nonconformist chapel. Construction of roughly squared red sandstone with Bathstone detail. Clay-tile roofs. Buttresses to angles and nave with elongated copings having small gablets. Cruciform plan with lower chancel, the E end of the nave marked by a tall two-stage bellcote, which has a trefoiled opening with ballflower detail: large foliage crucifix. Two-bay nave with early Decorated style two-light window to N and S (windows covered with protective sheeting). W bay of nave consists of a large porte cochere. W arch has ballflower detail within a deep hollow: shafts with foliage caps. Hoodmould with headstops, terminating in an empty pinnacled niche with steep crocketted gable. Four-centred side arches of two orders, dying at impost level. W door to nave within Gothic opening. Door has four-centred head: detail of tympanum concealed by protective sheeting. Paired boarded doors with elaborate branched iron hinges: also decorative iron margins to doors. Short transepts with N and S three-light windows: cusped lights with central roundel containing foils. Tiny open cruciform vents above to gables. Transepts also have lancets to E and W elevations, blocked to the NE by the lean-to chamber N of the chancel, which has a truncated chimney rising against the corner of the transept.

Used for storage. Not available for inspection at the time of survey (April 1999).

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