Latitude: 51.5464 / 51°32'47"N
Longitude: -2.8944 / 2°53'39"W
OS Eastings: 338073
OS Northings: 183439
OS Grid: ST380834
Mapcode National: GBR JB.FSRC
Mapcode Global: VH7BM.SD6C
Plus Code: 9C3VG4W4+H6
Entry Name: Whitson Church
Listing Date: 1 March 1963
Last Amended: 31 October 1996
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 2943
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300002943
Location: In churchyard reached by drive approximately 300m E of junction with Whitson Common Road.
County: Newport
Town: Newport
Community: Goldcliff
Community: Goldcliff
Locality: Whitson
Traditional County: Monmouthshire
Tagged with: Church building
Medieval church with C12 origins, later medieval tower, C19 porch, and restoration. Nave, chancel, S porch, W tower.
Yellow-brown stone (but some red stone dressings and quoins to tower), stone tile and slate roofs. Nave and porch have stone tiled roofs laid in diminishing courses; C19 porch doorway, nave doorway Norman with flanking shafts with foliage capitals. To L of porch, C19 window of 2 cusped lights, similar 3-light window to R. Buttress and chimney between nave and chancel which has small and larger C19 windows. East window is 3-light C19 Decorated/Perpendicular. N side of nave has 2- and 3-light windows as S. Tower has NE polygonal stair turret with conical stone roof; top stage has windows of 2 cusped lights under hoodmoulds; W face of tower has 2-light Perpendicular style window, and arched doorway.
Graded II* as church with much surviving medieval fabric.
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