St. Bride's or St. Bride's Wentloog ( cy, Llansanffraid Gwynllŵg) is a small hamlet to the south west of the
city
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of
Newport in
South Wales.
Location
It lies in the
parish
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of
Wentlooge
Wentlooge ( cy, Gwynllŵg), sometimes known as Wentloog, is a community in the southwest of the city of Newport, South Wales, in the Marshfield ward. The community includes Peterstone Wentloodge and St. Brides Wentloodge and in 2011 had a po ...
and electoral district (ward) of
Marshfield. Like most of the settlements on the
Wentloog Level it lies on land behind the sea wall, reclaimed from the
Bristol Channel, and criss-crossed by large and small drainage ditches, known locally as
reens.
History
The village and
church
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Religion
* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
* C ...
of St. Bride's, Wentloog is dedicated to
St. Bridget.
St Brides church is an ancient building of stone in the
Decorated and
Perpendicular
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styles, and consists of
chancel
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Ov ...
,
nave
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, south porch and an unusually fine perpendicular embattled western tower containing 6 bells, four of which are dated 1734 and bear inscriptions. A plaque inside the porch marks the high-tide level of the
Bristol Channel floods of 1607.
It was the birthplace of
Lyn Harding
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(1867–1952), the actor of stage, silent and talkie films, and radio.
References
External links
*
At Kelly's Directory for Monmouthshire,1901
Districts of Newport, Wales
Villages in Newport, Wales
Churches in Newport, Wales
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