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Saint Fagans Castle

St Fagans · 19 miles

An Elizabethan mansion stands in the village of St Fagans, on the western edge of Cardiff, Wales. Dating from the late 16th century, the house and the remaining D-shaped medieval wall are protected as Grade I listed structures. The estate now provides the setting for St Fagans National Museum of History, whose buildings occupy the surrounding grounds, while the gardens and parkland are also recorded at Grade I on the Cadw/ICOMOS register of historic parks and gardens. The location originally supported a 13th-century castle that was in ruins by 1536. In 1563 the property passed to Dr John Gibbon, and a new house was erected either by him or by Nicholas Herbert, who bought the site in 1586. Sir Edward Lewis of The Van acquired the house in 1616, establishing a trust that required it to remain in the senior male line of his family. Following the death of Thomas Lewis in 1736, an act of parliament placed the estate into a 2 000-year testamentary trust. The interior shows work from the Lewis period and later alterations after 1850 when the Windsor-Clive family inherited the estate in 1833; Lady Harriet Clive directed extensive restoration, and terraces were laid out in 1865–66 and extended in the early 20th century. During the First World War the building functioned as a convalescent hospital for soldiers, and in 1947 it was bequeathed to the National Museum of Wales. In 1951, furniture from Tredegar House was selected for the castle’s period rooms. Admission is free, wheelchair access is limited, and opening times are published on the listing.

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