Redwick ( cy, Y Redwig) is a small village and

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(parish) to the south east of the

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of Newport, in

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, United Kingdom. It lies within the Newport city boundaries, in the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent. in 2011 the population was 206.

Location

Redwick is located 6 miles (9.5 km) south east of the

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of Newport and some 4 miles (6.5 km) south west of Caldicot, Monmouthshire on the flat coastal lands reclaimed from the

Severn Estuary The Severn Estuary ( cy, Aber Hafren) is the estuary of the River Severn, flowing into the Bristol Channel between South West England and South Wales. Its high tidal range, approximately , means that it has been at the centre of discussions in t ...

and Bristol Channel and part of the

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The Church

The ancient

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Church of St Thomas, Redwick The Church of St Thomas is the parish church of the village of Redwick, to the south east of the city of Newport, South Wales, Great Britain. A medieval church, Perpendicular in style, and with elements dating from the fourteenth and fifteenth ...

is a Grade I

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. It is notable for many unusual features. An earlier dedication, when it belonged to

Tintern Abbey Tintern Abbey ( cy, Abaty Tyndyrn ) was founded on 9 May 1131 by Walter de Clare, Lord of Chepstow. It is situated adjacent to the village of Tintern in Monmouthshire, on the Welsh bank of the River Wye, which at this location forms the bo ...

, appears to have been to St. Michael. It is held with Magor. The church is unusually large for a parish church on the

, perhaps second only in its grandeur to that at Peterstone. The church has a full-immersion baptistry, unique

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stone carvings and a fine Victorian pipe organ salvaged from two previous churches. On the ancient south porch is a distinctive 'scratch post' or "Mass sundial" and (like the church at nearby

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) has a mark indicating the flood level of the water inundation caused by the Bristol Channel flood, 1607. The handsome font originates from the 13th century and may have been an original feature. Its embattled and pinnacled central tower contain six bells, the fourth and fifth of which are pre-

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bells from the

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foundry, dated circa 1350-80 making them some of the oldest church bells working anywhere in the country. Most unusually, following their lowering in the tower in the 1990s, the bells are rung from the

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in full view of the congregation, although a number of old unused rope bosses suggest that this must have also been the case at some time in the past. The newest bell is the treble (lightest bell) which was added in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II's 40 years on the throne. The fine East window, which contains some painted glass from about 1870, unlike the roof and the other windows, escaped the nearby German

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bomb blast of 1942. The restoration and re-modelling on the church, including the attractive raised tiled floor, in 1875, was by John Norton who later also participated in the building of the exquisite chapel at

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Notable features

The village

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is the Rose Inn, a free house situated on South Row. In May 2011, after a four-year wait, a grant of £316,323 from the

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was confirmed, alongside £200,000 from the

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, for the replacement of the existing 60-year-old Village Hall.

Whitehall Farm/Redbrick House

The earliest church records show that there was a house, then called Whitehall Farm, on the site since 1450. The main Georgian façade was built around 1795, by MP William Phillips. Phillips, built the Brick House ready for his son's return to Britain from the American Colonies. The son, also named William, never returned, however, as the ship carrying him home was wrecked in a storm before reaching Britain and he was drowned. The house is now a

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Archaeology

Insects from samples of

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timber buildings on the foreshore at Redwick have been examined by Smith and colleagues. Four rectangular buildings of middle Bronze Age date have also been excavated on inter-tidal

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at Redwick - such buildings appear to have been used during seasonal pastoral activity on the wetland. Martin Bell and colleagues from the

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have studied Mesolithic to

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coastal

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at Redwick.

History

Former Salem Baptist Chapel, North Row, Redwick

The church registers, which date from 1787, contain an unpleasant reminder of legal processes of not so very long ago. The last man to be

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for

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stealing in Monmouthshire was charged before local

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assembled at The Great House in the village. Salem

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Chapel was erected in 1832. By 1851, when the minister was Thomas Leonard, morning attendance was 21, with 13 scholars, and evening attendance was 68.Jones, I.G. and Williams, D. (1976( (eds) ''Church and chapel data from The Religious census of 1851: A Calendar of the returns relating to Wales, Vol 1, South Wales'', Cardiff, UWP. In 1994 the building was converted into a private residenc

Government

The area is in the Llanwern (electoral ward), Llanwern electoral ward and governed by the

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. Redwick also has its own

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References

External links

Redwick, St. Thomas' Church, Monumental Inscriptions
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