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Hanbury Arms

The Hanbury Arms er en pub på High Street i Caerleon nær Newport, Wales. Den ældste dele af bygningen kan dateres tilbage til 1219, som er et tårn, der er den eneste tilbageværende rest af Caerleon Castle. Det er både en listed building af anden grad og scheduled Ancient Monument. Den er kendt for at Alfred, Lord Tennyson frekventerede stedet i 1856, hvor han begyndte at skrive Idylls of the King Der er opsat en blå mindeplade om ham på bygningen. Referencer Eksterne henvisninger
Hanbury Arms

The Hanbury Arms is a public house in Caerleon, near Newport, Wales. In the 19th century, Alfred, Lord Tennyson stayed at the inn, and began writing the Idylls of the King during his stay. Description The Hanbury Arms has survived many renovations and the building's thick stone walls and stone fireplace remain intact. The roof is of local Welsh slate. The windows were reformed in the 19th century and the interior remains in its Tudor style. The pub is formed from local rubble stone with a lime-wash. It is a Grade II listed building. The adjoining tower is listed at Grade II*. History Caerleon has its origins as an Iron Age Silures hill fort. Upon the arrival of the Roman outposts across Britain, including at nearby Caerwent, the Isca Augusta fortress at Caerleon developed on the River Usk as an important route for goods and men into the country. The River Usk served both as the port of Newport and as a medieval port of Caerleon, situated four miles upriver. The first known construction on the site is a Norman tower built around 1219. Two theories exist explaining the uncertain history of the tower. One suggests that the tower was twinned with another tower on the opposite bank of the River Usk. Together they served as a chain tower allowing access to the upper river. An alternative theory suggests it formed part of the outer bailey of the castle. In the 1600s, Caerleon's quay grew, similar to the earlier established Roman docks that are now buried, and the Hanbury Arms was established on the riverside. The Hanbury Arms was initially a townhouse for the wealthy Morgan family, known as Tŷ Glyndŵr. The oldest parts of the building date back to 1219. It is listed both as a building, and a scheduled Ancient Monument in the region of Caerleon. The building dates to 1565 and was later used in the 17th century as a Magistrate's Court. At that time the tower was thought to be of Roman origin and was used to house criminals. The Hanbury family became the owners of the building in the 1720s. It became a pub around the 1750s and adopted the Hanbury family's coat of arms. In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the pub brewed its own beer. In 1856 Alfred, Lord Tennyson began the Idylls of the King while staying at the inn. The medieval tower and the town of Caerleon are mentioned many times in the poem. The Hanbury Arms brewery merged with Eastern Valleys brewery of Pontnewynydd in 1910 before being taken over by Hancock's Brewery in 1914. In 2001 it was purchased by SA Brain. The business operates until 11.30pm during weekends. It hosts regular live performances from local and international musicians, especially so during the yearly Caerleon Arts Festival each summer. Gallery References
Tredegar Estates Office

The Tredegar Estates Office (also referred to as Newport Magistrates Court) is a Grade II listed, early 20th-century building in the suburb of Allt-yr-yn, in Newport, Wales. From its construction until the mid-1950s, it was the primary office for the Tredegar Estates of the Morgan family, before being used as Newport Magistrates Court. As of 2026, it is split into office spaces to let. History The building was commissioned by Godfrey Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, as the office for the expansive Tredegar Estates of the Morgan family, some of the largest landowners in Wales, whose seat was the nearby Tredegar House in Coedkernew. Cadw gives the build dates as 1904-1906 and the designer as "J. F. Groves, architect to the Estate". The office housed deeds, leases, and rental or sale agreements for properties on the estate as well as detailed plans for farms on the estate including acreage of their fields. Tenants of the estate would visit the office to pay their rents at the Rent Office, situated to the right of the front door where there were staff operating from two counters. The office was also where pensioners who had served the Morgan family would collect their pensions provided by the Tredegar Estate. In the 1950s, crippling death-duties on large estates forced John Morgan, later the sixth and final Lord Tredegar, to dispose of the family's interests in South Wales. This culminated in the sale of Tredegar House in 1951, and the Tredegar Estate (including Ruperra Castle and surrounding land) in 1956. Following the dispersal of the Tredegar Estates in the 1950s, the building became the Newport Magistrates Court. A report in 2011 on the commencement of renovation work to the property said that it had been empty for around three years, and that it was planned to be converted into office spaces. As of 2026, following a process of renovation, the building is run as The Estates Office, an enterprise offering suites of offices within the building. Architecture The building is constructed of local, grey ashlar stone. The roof is hipped. John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, describes it as "like a little late 17th century country house". Over the main entrance door is the heraldic achievement of the Barons Tredegar carved in stone. The property was designated as a Grade II listed building on 2 May 1980 as the Newport Magistrates Court (its then use) as "an impressively designed former estate office, which has retained its original charter and detail". The entrance gates to the property were designated as Grade II listed on the same date as being of "group value with the Magistrates Court". See below plans for the building dating from around 1905. See also A biography on the life and work of John Francis Groves (1861–1953), architect for the Tredegar Estates Office, from the Biographical Dictionary of British and Irish Architects 1800-1950. Notes References
Beaumaris Town Hall

Beaumaris Town Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Dref Biwmares) is a municipal building on Castle Street, in Beaumaris, Anglesey, Wales. The structure, which is the meeting place of Beaumaris Town Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The first municipal building in the town was an Elizabethan structure in Castle Street which was completed in 1563. By the late 18th century, it had become dilapidated and the local member of parliament and Irish Peer, Thomas Bulkeley, 7th Viscount Bulkeley, offered to pay for the construction of a new structure on the same site. The new building was designed in the neoclassical style, built in gritstones and was completed in around 1785. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with five bays facing onto Castle Street; the ground floor, which was finished in rubble masonry, featured five round headed openings with voussoirs, while the first floor, which was finished in painted roughcast, was fenestrated by five sash windows with rusticated architraves and triple keystones. At roof level, there was a modillioned cornice. Internally, the principal rooms were the market hall on the ground floor and the ballroom on the first floor. The latter room was described by the publisher of topographical dictionaries, Samuel Lewis, as "the most splendid ballroom in North Wales". A touring cinema company briefly offered silent film performances on a once weekly basis in the ballroom during the early part of the First World War. In January 1940, during the Second World War, after the cargo ship, SS Gleneden, was hit by a German torpedo off Bardsey Island and then beached off Puffin Island, all 60 crew were rescued and given food and drink in the building. The town hall continued to serve as the meeting place of the borough council for much of the 20th century, but ceased to be the local seat of government when the enlarged Ynys Môn-Isle of Anglesey Borough Council was formed at Llangefni in 1974. Instead, it became the meeting place of Beaumaris Town Council. Shop fronts were installed in the central three openings to a design by Colwyn Foulkes and Partners of Colwyn Bay in 1975. References
Llangefni Town Hall

Llangefni Town Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Dref Llangefni) is a civic building dating back to the mid-19th century, in the town of Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. It is a Grade II listed building. Description Llangefni Town Hall is located in the centre of the town with its main three-bay Neo-Gothic facade facing onto the south side of Bulkeley Square. It has a 6-window length range to the rear. The tall two-storey building is constructed of limestone, with a slate roof and decorative terracotta ridge tiles. The Town Hall is Grade II listed, being a prominent town building which forms a visual grouping with the nearby Town Clock (erected 1902) and Bull Hotel. The front elevation has an arched main entrance centrally at ground floor level, over which is a first floor balcony and parapet. At first floor level is a tall central traceried window and, above that, an arched recess which once contained a clock. History The building is known to date from before 1887/8 and variously claimed to date from 1841 or 1871. Llangefni Town Council states that the town hall was opened on 10 March 1884. In 1895, it became the administrative centre for Llangefni Urban District Council, continuing to be so until 1974 when local authority reorganisation led to the Shire Hall in Llangefni being re-designated the "Borough Council Offices" and becoming the headquarters of the new Ynys Mon Borough Council. At county level Anglesey was incorporated into Gwynedd in 1974 and the county council headquarters moved to Caernarfon. Brand new council offices were built at Llangefni in the 1990s for the new unitary authority, Isle of Anglesey County Council. On 17 November 1992 the building was gutted by fire, with the roof and the whole interior severely damaged. Repairs cost £1 million and took three years to complete. The building remained largely unused, in 2004 the county council invited declarations of interest from private developers to use the building more effectively. By 2008 the building was costing the council £30,000 a year. A planning application was considered to introduce retail units and new offices to the building. In 2012 £170,000 was secured to refurbish the building, with the intention of it housing Menter Môn and creating 40 jobs for the town centre. In 2015 the newly refurbished town hall won the Community Benefit category of the Wales RICS Awards. It was one of five UK projects nominated for the RICS Awards 2015 Grand Final. Notes References External links Media related to Llangefni Town Hall at Wikimedia Commons
Carmarthen Library

Carmarthen Library (also known as Furnace House; Welsh: Llyfrgell Caerfyrddin) is a Grade II listed building in Carmarthen, Wales built in 1761. It currently houses the public library in Carmarthen. History The building was built in 1761 as a town house for Robert Morgan, a local ironmaster. The building's forecourt is surrounded by railings, which also date from 1761 and may have been made at the tin mill that Morgan established in that same year. After his death, the building was occupied by at least one of his sons, John. In 1819, Charles Morgan rented out the large garden at the rear to a gardener. The location of the garden is now covered by the archive buildings and St. Peter's Street Car Park. The Morgan family sold the building in 1878 to Mr. S. E. Richards, and it was occupied by Mrs. Richards in 1890. In 1883, the town council began using the property as lodgings for the judges of assize, which continued for many years. There were 3 assizes per year in Carmarthen, with the owners vacating the property for each judicial visit. Mr. Justice Charles stayed at Furnace House in 1892. Mr. David Thomas, an auctioneer and estate agent, died of pneumonia at Furnace House, which was his residence, in March 1894, aged 38. His wife had died two years previously after a long illness. His father, Nathanial Thomas, a farmer, lived at Furnace House until his death at home aged 75 in 1901. In 1901, Furnace House was listed for sale at auction for the price of £1,150. In that year, Carmarthenshire County Council considered purchasing the property as judges' lodgings, having been paying the owner of Furnace House £82 per year for its use as judges' lodgings, but instead bought Old Bank House on Spilman Street. However, the building continued to be used by judges as, in 1926, it was occupied by David Harris, MB, JP. The building was later used by YWCA. Library In 1972–73, the building was reconstructed as a public library, keeping only the façade and forecourt of the original building. Prior to the restoration work, the building was near demolition. A large extension was built to the rear of the building in 2018–2022 to house the National Broadcast Library and the Carmarthenshire Archives. The new building was built to Passivhaus standards and opened to the public on 13 July 2022. References
Lampeter Town Hall

Lampeter Town Hall (Welsh: Neuadd y Dref Llanbedr Pont Steffan) is a municipal structure in the High Street, Lampeter, Wales. The town hall, which was the meeting place of Lampeter Borough Council, is a Grade II listed building. History The first town hall in Lampeter, which was commissioned by the lord of the manor and partner in Harford Bank of Bristol, Richard Hart Davis, was designed by Peter Frederick Robinson and completed in 1818. Davis got into financial difficulty in 1819 and sold his estate, which included the town hall, to his son-in-law, John Scandrett Harford, of Blaise Castle in 1820. In the late 1870s, after the first town hall became dilapidated, the trustees of a Harford descendent, John Battersby Harford, offered to demolish it and to replace it with a new building. The new building was designed by Robert Jewell Withers in the Queen Anne Revival style, built in grey brick with red brick quoins at a cost of £4,000 and was completed in 1881. The design involved a symmetrical main frontage with three bays facing onto the High Street; the ground floor was arcaded with the central bay forming a carriageway and the outer openings being glazed to form two shops. On the first floor, there were three large mullioned windows, each of which were flanked by quoins, and there was a central wrought iron balcony supported by stone brackets. At roof level, there was a cornice and a central cupola with a clock with an ogee-sharped dome. The clock was designed and manufactured by Gillett and Bland of Croydon. Internally, the principal room was the main hall. The borough council, which met in the town hall, was reformed under the Municipal Corporations Act 1883. Following the implementation of the Local Government Act 1888, which established county councils in every county, it became necessary to establish a meeting place for the newly formed Cardiganshire County Council; the new county council regularly met in the town hall although offices were established for the county officials at the former town hall in Aberaeron in 1910. The main hall was used once a year for the quarter sessions: it was the venue for the trial of Captain William Killick who was accused and eventually acquitted of the attempted murder of the poet, Dylan Thomas, in March 1945. The building continued to serve as the headquarters of the Lampeter Borough Council for much of the 20th century but ceased to be the local seat of government after Ceredigion District Council was formed in 1974. The Lord Chancellor's Department announced the closure of the building as a venue for magistrates' court hearings with effect from December 1994. Following a change of ownership and an extensive programme of refurbishment works, which involved conversion of the building into the Jen Jones Welsh Quilt Centre, the building was officially re-opened by the Prince of Wales and Duchess of Cornwall in July 2010. Although the Welsh Quilt Centre closed as a permanent feature in May 2018, the owners announced their intention to host temporary quilt exhibitions in the building. References
St Jude's Church, Swansea

St Jude's Parish Church is a former Anglican church in Mount Pleasant, Swansea, Wales, in the United Kingdom. The final service was held on 8 February 2015, just a few months short of its centenary. History The present building was designed by E. M. Bruce Vaughan, and built in the years 1913–1915, on the site of an earlier church constructed of galvanised iron. In 1924 a new daughter church was built at Townhill to serve the developing estates at this end of the parish. In 1937 the parish of St Nicholas Townhill was carved out of St Jude's to serve this area. In 2015 both St Jude's and St Nicholas were merged to make The Benefice of Swansea St Nicholas on the Hill and St Jude. St Nicholas Church Townhill and St Judes's church closed. References External links Media related to St Jude's Church, Swansea at Wikimedia Commons "St Jude", St Jude – The Benefice of Swansea St Nicholas on the Hill and St Jude, The Church of Wales, retrieved 17 June 2018
Pontypridd Market and Town Hall

Pontypridd Market and Town Hall (Welsh: Marchnad a Neuadd y Dref Ponypridd) is a historic building located on Market Street, Pontypridd in Rhondda Cynon Taf in Wales. The structure, which contains a large auditorium which is currently derelict, was built in two parts both of which are Grade II listed buildings. History In the 1877, a group of local businessmen decided to form a company, to be known as the "Pontypridd Market and Town Hall Company", to finance and commission an indoor market and town hall for Pontypridd. The authority to proceed with this endeavour was contained in an act of parliament, "The Pontypridd Markets, Fairs and Town Hall Act 1877". The initial building was a narrow structure designed in the Mannerist style, built in rock-faced stone by William Seaton of Pontypridd at a cost of £1,600 and was completed in 1885. In 1890, the complex was expanded by a new square-shaped building, to the immediate south of the original building, later known as "The Arcade". It was covered by a seven-bay roof. Inside, there was a new market hall on the ground floor and, above it, there was an auditorium which became known as "Pontypridd Town Hall". It provided seating for about 1,700 people. Speakers in the town hall included Winston Churchill, who visited Pontypridd in September 1905. Fixed stalls were installed in the market in the 1910s, then the ground floor of the new building became its central hall. It was subsequently surrounded by buildings on all sides and so invisible from outside; entrance was by iron bridges. Two further market halls were added after the Second World War, and a salesroom was converted into a further hall in 1987, making it the largest indoor market in Wales. Meanwhile, Sir Harry Secombe and Sir Geraint Evans, supported by the Côr Meibion Pontypridd, performed in the auditorium, by then known as the "Town Hall Theatre", in November 1959. The town hall theatre closed in 1982. In 2015, a group was formed with plans to restore and divide the theatre, to form two smaller theatres, a cinema, a cafe and a restaurant. Architecture The theatre has rendered walls and a slate roof, with a large flytower. The hall is flat and has a balcony and a raised proscenium arch stage. The ceiling has deep coving and an Art Deco cornice. References
St James's Church, Rudry

St James's Church, Rudry is an historic Anglican church in the village of Rudry in the Diocese of Monmouth. History The church was founded in the mid 13th Century (possibly 1254) as a wayside shrine used by pilgrims. A church was present at the location by 1295, when it was a chapel of ease to the parish church in Bedwas, St Barrwg. It retained this function for the next 619 years, separating from Bedwas in 1914. The parish records at St James's date back to 1627. After 1254, the Bishop of Llandaf held the right to appoint the parish priest at Rudry, a practice which would continue until 1920. There exists a long-standing local myth that Oliver Cromwell sought refuge in St James's during the English Civil War. Hard evidence for this is lacking, though it is known that King Charles I spent time at nearby Ruperra Castle. In the late 18th Century, the officiant at St James's was Father William Price, an eccentric priest who was known for his habit of swimming naked in local ponds. His son was William Price, the archdruid and pioneer of cremation, who was baptised in St James's in 1800. Conservation The church was restored by John Prichard in 1885. It was Grade II listed in 1963. The tower at St James's was refurbished in the early 2011s. Churchyard There are two Commonwealth War Graves Commission memorials in the churchyard, marking the burial place of two soldiers of the First World War. They commemorate Private David John Jones of the Australian Infantry, who died in September 1918, age 34, and Gunner Walter James Moses of the Royal Garrison Artillery, who died in November 1918, age 27. The war memorial and three chest tombs of the Moses family in the churchyard are Grade II listed. References External links Official website BBC blog on Rudry village
St Mary's Church, Whitchurch

St Mary's Church, Whitchurch, is an Anglican place of worship in the suburb of Whitchurch, Cardiff. The Victorian church is a Grade II listed building. Early churches A church in the locality is first recorded in the 12th century, though the date of its founding and its dedication are now unknown. At this time, Whitchurch was a chapel of ease to Llandaff Cathedral, and would remain so until the 19th century. The first church which is known to have carried the dedication to Mary was first erected in the 14th century. In the 15th or 16th century, a porch was added, followed later still by a nave, then a belfry of Bath stone. The graveyard dated from 1616, when a licence for baptisms, marriages and burials was obtained. Later alterations to the interior were carried out in 1810. The old church could seat 300. Despite the fact that it was growing too small for the growing population (which the new Melingriffith Tin Plate Works had bolstered to 696), the issue of the church's inadequate facilities would not be addressed for several decades. During the 19th century, Whitchurch also acquired its first Nonconformist places of worship, with the Whitchurch Methodist Church being founded in c. 1820. Modern church As Whitchurch gradually evolved into a suburb over the 19th century, the population of the district continued to expand. Whitchurch became a separate parish in 1845. The Revd. J.T. Clarke, who became the vicar of St Mary's in 1876, was dissatisfied by the inadequate (and increasingly rundown) church, and began to agitate for a replacement. The new church was finally provided in 1884, located around 300 metres to the south-south-west from its predecessor. It was designed by John Prichard, and was consecrated for worship in 1885. After its replacement came into use, the old church was largely abandoned and lapsed into decay. It was ruinous by the turn of the 20th century and was demolished in 1904. Its graveyard remained until being converted into a public garden, St Mary's Gardens, in 1973, which is still extant on Old Church Road. The church was listed at Grade II in 1975. Organisation The church is now part of the Taff Wenallt Ministry Area, alongside All Saints (Rhiwbina), All Saints (Llandaff North) and St Thomas's (Birchgrove). References