Newland nr. Monmouth

No individual entry for this Newland found in the Domesday survey. Miller (1890) reports this as "a chapelty of Great Malvern. The old church, a timber building of considerable interest, was taken down in 1864, when the new church and almshouses were built"; no font mentioned in Miller. The entry for this parish in the Victoria County History (Gloucester, vol. 5, 1996) notes: "A new church to serve the assarted lands that became Newland parish was founded shortly before 1216. Robert de Wakering held it as rector in 1219 by appointment of King John and was said to have recently built the church. [...] There are no obvious remains of the original, early 13th-century church [...] The font is dated 1661 and has an octagonal bowl and base of stone, its panels decorated with shields and other devices in a rustic style." A font here is noted in Verey & Brooks (1999-2002): "Font. Date 1661. Octagonal, with rather naïve local carving, but full of character. Shields in cartouches and, on the shaft, plain leaves and elementary geometrical motifs. Matching cover."