Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building in the Newport local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 1 March 1963. Church.
Church of St Mary Magdalene
- WRENN ID
- proud-steel-lichen
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Newport
- Constituency
- Newport East MP: Jessica Morden (Lab)
- Country
- Wales
- Date first listed
- 1 March 1963
- Type
- Church
- Address
- Church of St Mary Magdalene, Goldcliff
- OS grid reference
- ST 365 831
- Coordinates
- 51.54385, -2.91678
- Source
- Cadw listing
Description
The Church of St Mary Magdalene is a Grade II listed building constructed from yellow-brown stone with slate roofs. It features an undivided nave and chancel, a west tower, and a south porch. The porch includes an 18th-century sundial in the gable, and the entrance door is boarded and nailed. On either side of the porch, there are two 19th-century two-light Decorated windows and a buttress. The east window is a three-light Decorated window from the 19th century. The north side has no openings and is supported by buttresses. The castellated tower has plain arched windows on three levels.
Inside the nave, there is a brass inscription that records a flood in 1606, stating, "On the XX day of January, even as it came to pas, it pleased God the flud did flow to the edge of this same bras, and in this parish there was lost 5000 and odd pounds besides XXII people was in this parish drownd ...."
Local climate
Church of St Mary Magdalene 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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