St John the Baptist's Church
Church St, Newton, Porthcawl, CF36 5PD
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Open 10am - 4pm from Saturday 1st to Saturday 8th
Holy Communion - Sunday 11.15am
Tuesday 10.30. Friday 10.30
Everyone welcome
Bells to be rung at start of the event on Saturday 1st June and at 4pm on Saturday 8th June to end the festival at the church.
Tea, coffee and biscuits (and cake if we are lucky) served in The Old School Room across from the church each day from 11am - 3pm.
Free guided tours of the church at 12noon each day.
A Children’s Treasure Trail
Sat, 08 JunSt John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD08 Jun 2024, 14:30 – 15:30St John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD, Church St, Porthcawl CF36 5PD, UK08 Jun 2024, 14:30 – 15:30St John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD, Church St, Porthcawl CF36 5PD, UKOn the second Saturday the Grace Community Choir and Hyelim Morris together with Liz, Ceri and Philip Dewhurst will perform works by Bach, Brahms, Strauss and Faure as well as Rutter, Gershwin and Berghold. This concert is free of charge.
Sat, 01 JunSt John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD01 Jun 2024, 14:00 – 15:00St John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD, Church St, Porthcawl CF36 5PD, UK01 Jun 2024, 14:00 – 15:00St John's Church, Newton, CF36 5PD, Church St, Porthcawl CF36 5PD, UKChris Shaw will perform on the first Saturday of the Festival at 2pm. Chris is well known in Porthcawl as a sax and guitar player. He has been a professional musician since 2006. He divides his time between France and the UK. This concert is free of charge.
About
We don’t know when Saint John’s was built, but we know there was a priest here in 1189.
His name was Glou and he was witness to a charter setting up the ‘novam villam’ the New Town in Nottage.
Glou is the last priest we know anything of until 1400.
However, by 1330 the two parishes of Newton and Nottage had been united and the earlier church at Nottage abandoned.
There are three manors in the parish – Pembroke, Herbert and Lougher – and they presented the rector in turn until the church was ‘disestablished’ in 1921 and the gift of patronage ceased.
Saint John’s church was originally dual purpose – designed by the Normans for worship and for defence against the Welsh and marauding Irish pirates.
The eight corbels jutting out on the east side suggest the presence of a look-out platform or possibly a roofed-in platform for archers.
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Wheelchair accessible church and churchyard
Small carpark in front of the church. Large car park behind the Ancient Briton public house, opposite the church by kind permission of Rod and Sian.
5min walk from St Clare's Convent School bus stop on Bridgend Rd (X2 bus).