Parish Church of Langstone is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. House.
Parish Church of Langstone
- WRENN ID
- low-copper-azure
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- House
- OS grid reference
- ST 371 891
- Coordinates
- 51.59772, -2.90908
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Parish Church of Langstone is a building dating primarily to the 17th century, constructed of blue lias and local pink sandstone, with some Roman bricks in the porch. The roofs are covered in natural slate. The church consists of a nave, chancel, a south porch, a bellcote, and north and south chapels adjoining the chancel.
The majority of the windows are in the Perpendicular style, featuring hollow-chamfered mullions, cusped heads, flat hoodmolds with simple square labels, and sandstone dressings. The east window is a 19th-century two-light design with a quatrefoil at the head and a simple hoodmold. High up on the chancel gable are three early window heads, reset and featuring trefoil heads and sunk spandrels. The chancel has early, leaded, two-light windows on the north and south sides. The north and south chapels have modern windows; the south chapel has a large, squat lancet beneath a voussoired arch on its east wall, while the north chapel is lit by a large, three-light, cusped window with a voussoired arch. The south side of the nave has early windows at the east end and a 19th-century copy at the west end, the latter under a more complexly moulded hoodmold. The north side of the nave reveals a 17th-century extension, inset from the earlier nave. A surviving Early English lancet window with shallow cusping to the head and plain chamfer to the jambs, thought to be reset, is located at the west end of the nave, alongside a further early two-light window. A stone plinth runs along the length of the north side of the nave.
The south porch is likely from the early 16th century, featuring a round-headed outer arch with chamfered jambs. The inner doorway is also round-headed with dressed stone jambs, exhibiting diagonal stops. The roof of the porch has an ovolo-moulded collar purlin with arched braces and two moulded purlins, with evidence of former bosses on the collar purlin. The west end has a bellcote containing a single bell, with a 17th-century window containing stained glass and a four-centered arch beneath it. At ground floor level is a large doorway with an oak doorframe and boarded door, and the lintel bears the inscription: "April the 7 Anno Domini 1622 Theophilus Bishop John Renaldes Edward William Church Warden."
The chancel arch is two-centered and plain, and the nave and chancel have a 19th-century boarded roof. The windows have deeply splayed reveals. All furnishings are 19th-century, and a small octagonal font from the 19th century is located to the west of the doorway.
Local climate
Parish Church of Langstone receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 65% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 66% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 36 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 61% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 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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