Westgate Hotel
The Westgate Hotel is a Grade II listed hotel in Newport city centre, whose name and site is famous as the scene of the 1839 Chartist riot, also called the Newport Rising. It is located at the bottom of Stow Hill.
After the demolition of the original West city gate of the city of Newport, the site was reclaimed and a hotel constructed.
In 1884, the original hotel was demolished, and the present structure constructed. Designed by local architect E.A. Lansdowne, it incorporated six shops at ground floor level to increase the sites rental income, and placed a new five storey hotel on top, which was twice the floor size of the hotel it replaced, and included the provision of an ornate ballroom. Built by local builder John Linton, it was leased from its opening in 1886 to Samuel Dean of the Castle Hotel for twenty one years. In recent times the building has been converted into an entertainment complex.
In 1991 three statues, 'Union, Prudence, Energy' by Christopher Kelly, commemorating the 1839 Chartist uprising were installed on Commercial Street at the front of the Westgate Hotel. The hotel also featured in the now-destroyed Chartist Mural.
The building is currently on the Buildings at Risk Register as substantially unoccupied and beginning to cause concern. The main staircase and richly decorated public rooms are amongst the best surviving examples of their period.
In 2012 Newport Unlimited announced an initiative to bring the hotel back into use
Coordinates: 51°35′15″N 2°59′48″W / 51.5876°N 2.9966°W
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