12–16 Church Street, Monmouth

12–16 Church Street in Monmouth, Wales, is a row of three shop houses designed by the architect George Vaughan Maddox and constructed c. 1837.

Increasing traffic on the street led to a number of accidents and demands for the construction of a new road.

[2] At the same time, developments at the Shire Hall in Agincourt Square meant that the market, previously located there, required new accommodation.

[3] In 1834, the Town Council offered a prize for a redevelopment scheme, which was won by George Vaughan Maddox.

[4] Maddox's proposals envisaged a new road, described by John Newman as, "a remarkably early inner bypass",[5] that would run north of Church Street along the west bank of the River Monnow.