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{{Use British English|date=August 2019}}
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{{Infobox UK place
{{Infobox UK place
| official_name = Redwick
| official_name = Redwick
| country = Wales
| country = Wales
| population = 194
| population = 194
| population_ref = &nbsp;(2001 census<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=801805&c=redwick&d=16&e=15&g=421554&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Office for National Statistics Parish Headcounts: Redwick]</ref>)
| population_ref = &nbsp;(2001 census<ref>[http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadTableView.do?a=3&b=801805&c=redwick&d=16&e=15&g=421554&i=1001x1003x1004&o=1&m=0&enc=1&dsFamilyId=779 Office for National Statistics Parish Headcounts: Redwick]</ref>)
| constituency_welsh_assembly = [[Newport East (Senedd constituency)|Newport East]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Newport East (UK Parliament constituency)|Newport East]]
| constituency_westminster = [[Newport East (UK Parliament constituency)|Newport East]]
| post_town = CALDICOT
| post_town = CALDICOT
| postcode_area = NP
| postcode_area = NP
| postcode_district = NP26 3
| postcode_district = NP26
| unitary_wales = [[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
| unitary_wales = [[Newport, Wales|Newport]]
| os_grid_reference = ST421841
| os_grid_reference = ST421841
| coordinates = {{coord|51.55280|-2.83648|display=inline,title}}
| coordinates = {{coord|51.55280|-2.83648|display=inline,title}}
| label_position = left
| label_position = left
| dial_code = [[01633]]<br />Magor exchange
| dial_code = [[01633]]<br />Magor exchange
| static_image = File:Longlands Lane crossing the Caldicot Levels - geograph.org.uk - 806444.jpg
| static_image_caption = Longlands Lane crossing the [[Caldicot and Wentloog Levels|Caldicot Levels]] towards Redwick
}}
}}
'''Redwick''' ({{lang-cy|Y Redwig}}) is a small village and [[Community (Wales)|community]] (parish) to the south east of the [[city]] of [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], in [[Wales]], United Kingdom. It lies within the Newport city boundaries, in the [[Historic counties of Wales|historic county]] of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]] and the [[preserved county]] of [[Gwent (county)|Gwent]]. in 2011 the population was 206.<ref>https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W04000828</ref>
'''Redwick''' ({{lang-cy|Y Redwig}}) is a small village and [[Community (Wales)|community]] (parish) to the south east of the [[city]] of [[Newport, Wales|Newport]], in [[Wales]], United Kingdom. It lies within the Newport city boundaries, in the [[Historic counties of Wales|historic county]] of [[Monmouthshire (historic)|Monmouthshire]] and the [[preserved county]] of [[Gwent (county)|Gwent]]. In 2011 the population was 206.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.nomisweb.co.uk/reports/localarea?compare=W04000828|title=Custom report - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics|website=www.nomisweb.co.uk}}</ref>


== Location ==
== Location ==


Redwick is located six miles south east of the city of Newport and some four miles south west of [[Caldicot, Monmouthshire]] on the flat coastal lands reclaimed from the [[Severn Estuary]] and [[Bristol Channel]] and part of the [[Caldicot and Wentloog Levels]].
Redwick is located on the [[Caldicot and Wentloog Levels|Caldicot Levels]], about {{convert|8|mi}} south east of the [[Newport city centre|centre]] of Newport and some {{convert|4|mi}} south west of [[Caldicot]], [[Monmouthshire]] on the flat coastal lands reclaimed from the [[Severn Estuary]] and [[Bristol Channel]]. The village of [[Magor, Monmouthshire|Magor]] lies about {{convert|3|mi}} to the north east.


== The Church ==
== The Church ==
[[File:St Thomas the Apostle Church, Redwick.JPG|left|thumb|Church of St Thomas the Apostle, Redwick]]
[[File:St Thomas the Apostle Church, Redwick.JPG|thumb|280px|[[Church of St Thomas, Redwick|Church of St Thomas the Apostle]]]]
{{main|Church of St Thomas, Redwick}}
{{main|Church of St Thomas, Redwick}}
The ancient [[parish church]] of [[Church of St Thomas, Redwick]] is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/wa-2940-church-of-st-thomas-redwick |title=Church of St Thomas, Redwick |publisher=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk |year= |accessdate=23 November 2013}}</ref> It is notable for many unusual features.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/69915 Redwick, St Thomas's Church] at geograph.org</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newport.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/guidance_notes/cont475419.pdf |title=Church of St Thomas |publisher=newport.gov.uk |accessdate=23 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224509/http://www.newport.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/guidance_notes/cont475419.pdf |archivedate=2 December 2013 }}</ref> An earlier dedication, when it belonged to [[Tintern Abbey]], appears to have been to St. Michael. It is held with [[Magor, Monmouthshire|Magor]].
The ancient [[parish church]] of [[Church of St Thomas, Redwick|St. Thomas]] is a Grade I [[listed building]].<ref>{{Cadw|num=2940|desc=Church of St Thomas, Redwick |grade=|access-date=10 January 2024}}</ref> An earlier dedication, when it belonged to [[Tintern Abbey]], appears to have been to St. Michael. It is held with [[Magor, Monmouthshire|Magor]]. The building has some unusual features:<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.newport.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/guidance_notes/cont475419.pdf |title=Church of St Thomas |publisher=newport.gov.uk |access-date=23 November 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131202224509/http://www.newport.gov.uk/stellent/groups/public/documents/guidance_notes/cont475419.pdf |archive-date=2 December 2013 }}</ref> It is unusually large for a parish church on the [[Caldicot and Wentloog Levels]], with only the church at [[Peterstone]] being of comparable size;<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/583085 St Thomas's Church, Redwick] at geograph.org</ref> it has a full-immersion baptistry, unique [[medieval]] stone carvings and a fine [[Victorian era|Victorian]] [[pipe organ]] salvaged from two previous churches. On the south porch is a distinctive "scratch post" or "Mass sundial" and (like the church at nearby [[Goldcliff]]) it has a mark indicating the flood level of the water inundation caused by the [[Bristol Channel flood, 1607]]. The [[baptismal font|font]] originates from the 13th century and may have been an original feature.


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Its embattled and pinnacled central tower contain six bells, the fourth and fifth of which are pre-[[Reformation]] bells from the [[Bristol]] foundry, dated circa 1350–80,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?numPerPage=10&searchCountry=Wales&searchDiocese=Monmouth&searchAmount==&searchMetric=cwt&Submit=++Go++&sortBy=Place&sortDir=Asc&page=4&DoveID=REDWICK|title=Tower details|website=dove.cccbr.org.uk}}</ref> making them some of the oldest church bells working anywhere in the country. Following their lowering in the tower in the 1990s, the bells are rung from the [[chancel]] 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.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}} The East window, which contains some painted glass from about 1870, escaped the nearby German [[Luftwaffe]] bomb blast of 1942, unlike the roof and the other windows. The 1875 restoration and re-modelling of the church, including the raised tiled floor, was by [[John Norton (architect)|John Norton]], who was later involved in the design of the chapel at [[Tyntesfield]] in [[Somerset]].
The church is unusually large for a parish church on the [[Caldicot and Wentloog Levels]], perhaps second only in its grandeur to that at [[Peterstone]].<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/583085 St Thomas's Church, Redwick] at geograph.org</ref> The church has a full-immersion baptisty, unique [[medieval]] stone carvings and a fine [[Victorian era|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 [[Goldcliff]]) has a mark indicating the flood level of the water inundation caused by the [[Bristol Channel flood, 1607]]. The handsome [[baptismal font|font]] originates from the 13th century and may have been an original feature.

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Its embattled and pinnacled central tower contain six bells, the fourth and fifth of which are pre-[[Reformation]] bells from the [[Bristol]] foundry, dated circa 1350-80 <ref>[http://dove.cccbr.org.uk/detail.php?numPerPage=10&searchCountry=Wales&searchDiocese=Monmouth&searchAmount=%3D&searchMetric=cwt&Submit=++Go++&sortBy=Place&sortDir=Asc&page=4&DoveID=REDWICK Dove's Guide: Redwick]</ref> 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 [[chancel]] 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.{{Citation needed|date=May 2011}}

The fine East window, which contains some painted glass from about 1870, unlike the roof and the other windows, escaped the nearby German [[Luftwaffe]] bomb blast of 1942. The restoration and re-modelling on the church, including the attractive raised tiled floor, in 1875, was by [[John Norton (architect)|John Norton]] who later also participated in the building of the exquisite chapel at [[Tyntesfield]] in [[Somerset]].


== Notable features ==
== Notable features ==
[[File:The Rose Inn, Redwick.JPG|thumb|The Rose Inn, Redwick]]
[[File:The Rose Inn, Redwick.JPG|thumb|280px|The Rose Inn]]
The village [[pub]] is the Rose Inn, a [[free house (pub)|free house]] situated on South Row.<ref>[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/352276 Rose Inn, Redwick, Monmouthshire:: OS grid ST4184 :: Geograph Britain and Ireland - photograph every grid square!<!-- Bot generated title -->]</ref> In May 2011, after a four-year wait, a grant of £316,323 from the [[Big Lottery Fund]] was confirmed, alongside £200,000 from the [[Welsh Assembly]], for the replacement of the existing 60-year-old Village Hall.<ref>[http://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/gwentnews/9025603.Joy_as_Redwick_village_hall_funding_approved/ "Joy as Redwick village hall funding approved" by Melissa Jones at southwalesargus.co.uk]</ref>
The village [[pub]] is the Rose Inn, a [[free house (pub)|free house]] situated on South Row.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/352276|title=Geograph:: Rose Inn, Redwick, Monmouthshire © Ruth Sharville cc-by-sa/2.0|website=www.geograph.org.uk}}</ref> In May 2011, after a four-year wait, a grant of £316,323 from the [[Big Lottery Fund]] was confirmed, alongside £200,000 from the [[Welsh Assembly]], for the replacement of the existing 60-year-old Village Hall.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/9025603.joy-as-redwick-village-hall-funding-approved/|title=Joy as Redwick village hall funding approved|date=13 May 2011|website=South Wales Argus}}</ref> Mead Farm Foods is based at Mead Farm, run by sixth-generation farmers Lawrence and Izabela Hembrow.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/business/14997876.from-our-home-to-yours-new-venture-from-monmouthshire-farm/|title='From our home to yours' - new venture from Monmouthshire farm|date=2 January 2017|website=South Wales Argus}}</ref>

===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 architecture|Georgian]] façade was built around 1795, by [[Member of Parliament|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.<ref>[http://www.a1tourism.com/uk/brickh.html Brick House Country Guest House history]</ref> The house is now a [[guest house (lodging)|guest house]].

== Archaeology ==

Insects from samples of [[Bronze Age]] timber buildings on the foreshore at Redwick have been examined by Smith and colleagues.<ref>[http://www.arch-ant.bham.ac.uk/research/Environment/gwent.htm Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham]</ref> Four rectangular buildings of middle Bronze Age date
have also been excavated on inter-tidal [[peat]] at Redwick - such buildings appear to have been used during seasonal pastoral activity on the wetland.<ref>[http://www.archaeologists.net/modules/icontent/inPages/docs/ta/ta59.pdf The Archaeologist Winter 2006]</ref> Martin Bell and colleagues from the [[University of Reading]] have studied [[Mesolithic]] to [[Neolithic]] coastal [[environmental change]] at Redwick.<ref>[http://www.reading.ac.uk/SHESresearch/AllGroups/PublicationDetails.asp?grp=ASRG University of Reading Archeological Science (Geoarchaeology & Bioarchaeology)]</ref>


==History==
==History==
[[File:Former Salem Baptist Chapel, North Row, Redwick.jpg|thumb|280px|Former Salem Baptist Chapel, North Row]]
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 [[hanged]] for [[sheep]] stealing in Monmouthshire was charged before local [[magistrates]] assembled at The Great House in the village.<ref>Evans, C.J.O., (1953) Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography, Cardiff.</ref>
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The church registers, which date from 1787, record that the last man to be [[hanged]] for [[sheep]] stealing in Monmouthshire was charged before local [[magistrates]] assembled at The Great House in the village.<ref>Evans, C.J.O., (1953) Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography, Cardiff.</ref> Salem [[Baptist]] 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.<ref>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.</ref> In 1994 the building was converted into a private residence.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2312021|title=Geograph:: Front view of former Salem Baptist... © Jaggery|website=www.geograph.org.uk}}</ref>

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Salem [[Baptist]] 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.<ref>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.</ref> In 1994 the building was converted into a private residence.[https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2312021]


== Government ==
== Government ==
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The area is in the [[Llanwern (electoral ward)|Llanwern]] [[electoral ward]] and governed by the [[Newport City Council]]. Redwick also has its own [[community council]].

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The area is [[Local government in Wales|governed]] by the [[Newport City Council]] and the Redwick, Newport [[community council]].


== References ==
== References ==
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==External links==
==External links==
{{Commons category|Redwick, Newport}}
{{Commons category|Redwick, Newport}}
*[http://www.cefnpennar.com/redwick Redwick, St. Thomas' Church, Monumental Inscriptions]
*[https://www.redwickcc.org/ Redwick Community Council]


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{{City of Newport}}

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51°33′10″N 2°50′11″W / 51.55280°N 2.83648°W / 51.55280; -2.83648

Redwick (Welsh: Y Redwig) is a small village and community (parish) to the south east of the city of Newport, in Wales, 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.[2]

Standort

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Redwick is located on the Caldicot Levels, about 8 miles (13 km) south east of the centre of Newport and some 4 miles (6.4 km) south west of Caldicot, Monmouthshire on the flat coastal lands reclaimed from the Severn Estuary and Bristol Channel. The village of Magor lies about 3 miles (4.8 km) to the north east.

The Church

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Church of St Thomas the Apostle
Main article: Church of St Thomas, Redwick

The ancient parish church of St. Thomas is a Grade I listed building.[3] An earlier dedication, when it belonged to Tintern Abbey, appears to have been to St. Michael. It is held with Magor. The building has some unusual features:[4] It is unusually large for a parish church on the Caldicot and Wentloog Levels, with only the church at Peterstone being of comparable size;[5] it has a full-immersion baptistry, unique medieval stone carvings and a fine Victorian pipe organ salvaged from two previous churches. On the south porch is a distinctive "scratch post" or "Mass sundial" and (like the church at nearby Goldcliff) it has a mark indicating the flood level of the water inundation caused by the Bristol Channel flood, 1607. The 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-Reformation bells from the Bristol foundry, dated circa 1350–80,[6] making them some of the oldest church bells working anywhere in the country. Following their lowering in the tower in the 1990s, the bells are rung from the chancel 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.[citation needed] The East window, which contains some painted glass from about 1870, escaped the nearby German Luftwaffe bomb blast of 1942, unlike the roof and the other windows. The 1875 restoration and re-modelling of the church, including the raised tiled floor, was by John Norton, who was later involved in the design of the chapel at Tyntesfield in Somerset.

Notable features

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The Rose Inn

The village pub is the Rose Inn, a free house situated on South Row.[7] In May 2011, after a four-year wait, a grant of £316,323 from the Big Lottery Fund was confirmed, alongside £200,000 from the Welsh Assembly, for the replacement of the existing 60-year-old Village Hall.[8] Mead Farm Foods is based at Mead Farm, run by sixth-generation farmers Lawrence and Izabela Hembrow.[9]

History

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Former Salem Baptist Chapel, North Row

The church registers, which date from 1787, record that the last man to be hanged for sheep stealing in Monmouthshire was charged before local magistrates assembled at The Great House in the village.[10] Salem Baptist 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.[11] In 1994 the building was converted into a private residence.[12]

Regierung

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The area is in the Llanwern electoral ward and governed by the Newport City Council. Redwick also has its own community council.

References

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  1. ^ Office for National Statistics Parish Headcounts: Redwick
  2. ^ "Custom report - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics". www.nomisweb.co.uk.
  3. ^ Cadw. "Church of St Thomas, Redwick (2940)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 10 January 2024.
  4. ^ "Church of St Thomas" (PDF). newport.gov.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 December 2013. Retrieved 23 November 2013.
  5. ^ St Thomas's Church, Redwick at geograph.org
  6. ^ "Tower details". dove.cccbr.org.uk.
  7. ^ "Geograph:: Rose Inn, Redwick, Monmouthshire © Ruth Sharville cc-by-sa/2.0". www.geograph.org.uk.
  8. ^ "Joy as Redwick village hall funding approved". South Wales Argus. 13 May 2011.
  9. ^ "'From our home to yours' - new venture from Monmouthshire farm". South Wales Argus. 2 January 2017.
  10. ^ Evans, C.J.O., (1953) Monmouthshire, Its History and Topography, Cardiff.
  11. ^ 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.
  12. ^ "Geograph:: Front view of former Salem Baptist... © Jaggery". www.geograph.org.uk.
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