CHRISTCHURCH
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The Village
Christchurch is a parish three miles to the east of the Borough of Newport. The parish church of Holy Trinity, restored in 1886, affords 500 sittings, and stands on an eminence from whence may be obtained magnificent and extensive views of the country around and of the Bristol Channel, with the Somersetshire coast beyond. Its registers date from the year 1666. The living is a vicarage, and is now held by the Rev. H. S. Rees. Churchwardens-Oswald Thomas and Captain Eaves. There is a Chapel-of-ease (Holy Spirit), opened 1898, in Caerleon village, where services are held every Thursday and Sunday evenings. A granite cross has been erected near the Church in memory of the men of the parish who were killed in the Great War. There is a new Lych Gate. The old Institution house adjoining the church has recently been restored.
Johns Newport Directory, 1939
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