St Fagans Castle - The Architectural and Social History of a Welsh Country House — The Architectural and Social History of a Welsh Country House

Disgrifiad Cymraeg / Welsh Description

Hanes cynhwysfawr cyntaf Castell Sain Ffagan, plasty gwledig Elisabethaidd yng Nghaerdydd sydd wedi'i restru fel Gradd I.

Disgrifiad Saesneg / English Description

The first comprehensive history of St Fagans Castle, a Grade I-listed, Elizabethan country house in Cardiff.

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Cynnwys / Table of Contents

Acknowledgements List of Illustrations List of Abbreviations Genealogies Floor Plans Maps of Grounds Introduction Chapter 1: ‘A Faire Howse Within the Old Walls of a Castle’ The Early History of St Fagans Castle to 1736 Medieval St Fagans Dr John Gibbon Arrival of Renaissance Architecture in England and Wales Design of St Fagans Castle Lewis Family of Y Fan Elizabethan and Jacobean Gardens Chapter 2: ‘This ancient Castle of your ancestors’ The Windsor family and St Fagans Castle, 1736–1878 Windsor Family as Absentee Landlords Taking St Fagans Castle in Hand Robert Windsor-Clive’s Watercolour Proposal William Parry James and the 1867–9 Scheme Harriet Windsor-Clive and the ‘Gothicising’ of St Fagans Castle Mary Windsor-Clive and her ‘Wild’ Additions to the Gardens Chapter 3: ‘Enchanted land of Arthurian romance’ Robert George and Gay Windsor-Clive and St Fagans Castle, 1878–1923 Introducing Robert and Gay Windsor-Clive The New House at Hewell Grange St Fagans Castle as a Foil to Hewell Grange Edwardian ‘Garden Rooms’ Enclosed Park Hugh A. Pettigrew’s Contribution to the Gardens The Next Generation Bibliography

Bywgraffiad yr Awdur / Author Biography

Bethan Scorey is an architectural historian from Cardiff, with a particular interest in the country houses of Wales. She recently completed her PhD on St Fagans Castle, at the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, Bangor University.