Former Nonconformist 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 Nonconformist Chapel at St Woolos Cemetery

WRENN ID
crooked-truss-alder
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Newport
Country
Wales
Date first listed
14 September 1999
Type
Chapel
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Romanesque style, contrasting with the Gothic Anglican Chapel. Construction of roughly squared red sandstone with Bathstone detail, including continuous sill-moulding. Clay tile roofs with alternating scalloped bands. Low clasp buttresses. Cruciform plan with circular crossing tower, rising from low square stage: single lights set high up, conical roof. Apsidal west end (ritual east end) with three single light windows. Short transepts with N and S triplet windows on shafts with simple scalloped caps, the centre light with sawtooth detail. Tiny paired lights above within the gables, similarly detailed. Transepts also have lancets to E and W elevations. Two-bay nave with single light window to N and S. E bay of nave consists of a large porte cochere. Round-arched E opening has half-columns with foliage capitals: sawtooth detail in arch. Hoodmoulding with short returns. Segmental N and S arches of two orders, dying into the imposts. E door to nave within tall round-arched opening, shafts with scalloped capitals. Entry has flattened arch, with unusual protruding carved roundels each side. Tympanum has carved detail with incised crucifix within central roundel. Paired boarded doors with elaborate upper branched iron hinges: also sawtooth-pattern iron margins to doors.

Used for storage. Painted round-headed crossing arches on three-quarter columns with scalloped capitals. Arches of two orders: roll-mouldings with sawtooth detail above. Crossing has flat ceiling with large boarded oculus having simple radiating ribs. Thin collar-truss roof to nave, scissor-trusses in transepts. Black and white tiles to floor, laid diagonally.

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