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Campanile, Portmeirion

The Campanile or Bell Tower (Welsh: Y Tŵr Clychau) is a prominent structure in the village of Portmeirion, in Gwynedd, northwest Wales. Portmeirion was created as an Italianate village by the architect, Clough Williams-Ellis, who bought the Aber Iâ mansion and its estate in 1925 as the location for his project, building his eccentric, eclectic village between 1925 and 1975. The Campanile is a Grade II* listed building. Construction and design Construction of the Campanile started in 1925 and was completed in 1928. It used stone from a 12th-century castle, the remains which lay a short distance to the west of the village (and which had been demolished circa 1869). A plaque at the base of the tower ironically reads "This tower, built by Clough Williams-Ellis, architect and publican, embodies stones from the 12th century castle of his ancestor Gruffydd ap Cynan, King of North Wales ...It was finally razed c. 1869 by Sir William Fothergill Cook, inventor of the Electric Telegraph, 'lest the ruins should become known and attract visitors to the place.'" At seven-storeys in height, Williams-Ellis planned the tower to be the most prominent building and focal point for his new village. Displaying his knowledge of architecture, the tower is in a classical design, similar to the Italian church towers it set out to imitate. The four lower levels are in bare stone and the upper three levels are plastered. The lowest of the plastered levels (level five) has a bell hanging in each of its Serlian window openings. The tower is topped by an octagonal cupola. At the apex of the copper roof is a golden ball and, on top of that, a weather vane. The tower also includes a clock salvaged from a London brewery, which chimes on the hour. There are clock faces on the east and west of the third level. Unusually for the Portmeirion buildings, the Campanile was built exactly according to the original design drawings. The plans were exhibited at the 1931 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. See also List of buildings and structures in Portmeirion Grade II* listed buildings in Gwynedd References External links Media related to The Campanile, Portmerion at Wikimedia Commons
Gelligroes Mill

Gelligroes Mill is a water-powered corn mill in Pontllanfraith, Caerphilly county borough, South Wales, designated as a Grade II* listed building in 1962. The mill is equipped with an overshot wheel with a cast iron frame and wooden buckets. When fully operational, it contained two pairs of rotating stones to grind barley and wheat. It was built around 1625 and was much altered during its working life. It is believed to have been the last mill operating commercially in Monmouthshire, eventually falling into disuse in the late 1980s. As mining developed and farming declined, the business adapted to changing needs. In 1874 the owners became suppliers of seed and animal feed to smallholders, and in the 1900s Artie Moore and his brother, who were local technological pioneers, installed a generator powered by the mill wheel to charge batteries for farmers in advance of the extension of mains electricity to the area. Moore's self-built wireless receiver at the mill picked up the Italian government's declaration of war on Libya in 1911 and RMS Titanic's distress call in 1912. As of 2000, the mill is occupied by royal candlemaker David Constable. References
St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot

The Church of St Theodore is a parish church of the Church in Wales in Port Talbot, Wales. Located on the A48 opposite Maes-y-Cwrt Terrace and bordered on two sides by the Talbot Memorial Park, it is administered within the diocese of Llandaff. The church was designed by John Loughborough Pearson, and it is the largest of his churches in Wales. It was built with financial assistance from Miss Emily Charlotte Talbot, a local philanthropist who lived at nearby Margam Castle, in memory of her late brother Theodore Mansel Talbot (1839–1876), whose premature death resulted in her inheriting the family fortune. The family was heavily influenced by the Oxford Movement within the Church of England. It replaced the smaller Holy Cross Church (also known locally as "Chapel of Ease"). The church is built primarily in the Early English style, and dressed mainly in Bath stone. The pulpit is of Portland stone. An item of interest is a memorial to Lt Rupert Price Hallowes, a Victoria Cross-winning resident of Port Talbot (killed in action in 1915). The organ was installed in the church prior to its consecration in August 1897, and was made by Charles Martin of Oxford; it was both his largest and his last work. It cost over £800 and was paid for by public subscription. The organ was completely restored in 2000, when the church itself underwent substantial refurbishment. The restoration project included the removal and replacement of all stained glass within the church, which include four works from the studio of Clayton and Bell; the windows proved impossible to clean as they were badly affected by pollution from local heavy industry. The stonework was also cleaned, and a new lighting system was installed. The original iron railings outside the church were repaired. The Sanctus Bell, which had previously been removed because of the dangerous condition of the bellcote, was re-hung following repairs. References External links Artwork at St Theodore's Church, Port Talbot
Hafotty

Hafotty, Llansadwrn, Anglesey, Wales is a medieval hall house dating from the mid 14th century. Described in the Gwynedd Pevsner as "one of Anglesey's classic small medieval houses", Hafotty is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument. History The original house at Hafotty was built of wood. This house is recorded as "Bodiordderch" ("the house of Iordderch"), and has also been called 'Bodarddar'. Anthony Emery dates this wooden house to the second quarter of the 14th century. Its original owner was Thomas Norres from Lancashire. In 1535 the house was in the possession of Henry Norris, Constable of Beaumaris Castle. By the 16th century, Hafotty had passed to the Bulkeleys, another prominent North Wales family, and had acquired its present name, meaning summer house, or summer dairy. Cadw records extensions to the house in the 16th century, and its re-casing in stone in the 17th. By the 20th century, Hafotty was in a state of some dereliction, but was restored in the 1970s and again in the early 21st century. The house remains in the possession of the Bulkeleys, although under the care of Cadw, and is occasionally open to the public. Architecture and description The Gwynedd Pevsner considers Hafotty "one of Anglesey's classic small medieval houses". Peter Smith, in his Houses of the Welsh Countryside, categorises it as a three-unit hall house and notes that, despite its "relatively modest" size, it was still a "house of status". Built to an H-plan, and constructed of rubble masonry, it is of two-storeys. Dendrochronology from tree rings dates the beams in the extension to between 1509 and 1553. The interior contains some notable medieval fittings, including fireplaces and window surrounds. The fireplace has a Tudor arch and the inscription in Latin: Si deus nobiscum, quis contra nos ('If God is with us, who can be against us') which is a Bulkeley family motto. The arch also has carvings of the heads of a Saracen and a bull, another Bulkeley family motif. Hafotty is a Grade I listed building and a scheduled monument. Footnotes References Sources Emery, Anthony (2008). Greater Medieval Houses of England and Wales, 1300–1500: East Anglia, Central England, and Wales. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0521581318. Haslam, Richard; Orbach, Julian; Voelcker, Adam (2009). Gwynedd. The Buildings of Wales. New Haven, US and London: Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-14169-6. OCLC 1023292902. Kovach, Warren (2017). Anglesey in 50 Buildings. Stroud, UK: Amberley Publishing. ISBN 978-1445672564. Smith, Peter (1975). Houses of the Welsh Countryside. London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. ISBN 0-11-700475-8. OCLC 868639211. External links Media related to Hafoty, Llansadwrn at Wikimedia Commons
Portland House, Cardiff

Portland House, Bute Street is a former bank building in Butetown, Cardiff, Wales. Completed in 1927, the building was designed for the National Provincial Bank by their in-house architectural team, F. C. R. Palmer and W. F. C. Holden. Cadw considers it "amongst the finest of its style in Wales". Portland House is a Grade II* listed building. After a period of near dereliction, it was converted to an events venue in the early 21st century. History The area of Butetown was developed from the early 19th century by John Crichton-Stuart, 2nd Marquess of Bute, and by his son, the 3rd marquess. Together they constructed the docks which enabled the export of iron and coal from the South Wales Valleys. While the docks themselves were not especially profitable, the enormous increases in the tonnage of iron, steel and coal exported through them made the Butes immensely wealthy. Portland House was built in 1926-1927 for the National Provincial Bank. It stands on Bute Street to the east of Mount Stuart Square. The architects were F. C. R. Palmer and W. F. C. Holden, who formed the bank's in-house architectural team. The docks traffic was already in decline and Portland House was the last major commercial building to be constructed in Butetown. After a period of near dereliction at the end of the 20th century, Portland House was converted into an events venue in the early 21st. Architecture and description The bank was constructed with a steel frame set onto a base of reinforced concrete. The whole is faced with Portland stone. It is of seven bays and five storeys. The first two storeys form the main bank and are fronted by a row of "giant fluted Ionic columns". The architectural historian John Newman, in his Glamorgan volume in the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, wrote of the building's "extraordinary magniloquence". Cadw considers Portland House "amongst the finest of its style in Wales". It is a Grade II* listed building. Notes References Sources Davies, John (1981). Cardiff and the Marquesses of Bute. Cardiff, UK: University of Wales Press. ISBN 978-0-708-32463-9. Newman, John (1995). Glamorgan. The Buildings of Wales. London, UK: Penguin Books. ISBN 978-0-140-71056-4. OCLC 33858574.
St Cybi's Church

St Cybi's Church is a medieval church near the Roman Caer Gybi in Holyhead, Anglesey, Wales. The church was Grade I listed in January 1968. The original church was constructed at Holyhead around 540 AD by St Cybi, a cousin of St David. The church was sacked by Viking invaders in the 10th century and damaged again in 1405 by Henry IV's invading forces. The present church was built in the 13th century and stands near the Roman Caer Gybi fort in Holyhead. History The church was built on the site of the abandoned Roman fort Caer Gybi which was built between the 3rd and 4th-centuries. During the 6th-century, King Maelgwn Gwynedd gave the fort to St Cybi, a cousin of Saint David, who used it to begin an early Christian monastic settlement within the ruined fort walls in 540. After St Cybi's death on 8 November 555, he was buried in the churchyard, and the Eglwys y Bedd church is thought to mark his original burial place. In the 10th century, the original church was sacked by Viking raiders. In 1405, it was further damaged by Henry IV's troops, who invaded Anglesey from Ireland as part of Henry's efforts to put down Owain Glyndŵr's rebellion. The English army stole Cybi's shrine and relics and placed them in Christ Church Cathedral in Dublin. After they were taken, pilgrimages to St Cybi's ceased. In the 1650s during the English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell's army was garrisoned at the church. While they were there, they damaged the church fixtures and defaced the statues in the church, as well as the font, memorials, and stained glass windows. The soldiers also increased the church's tower by 17-foot (5.2 m) so they could use it as a lookout point over the coast. Architecture The present church of St Cybi's was built between the 13th and 16th centuries and stands near the walls of the Roman Caer Gybi. The chancel is one of the oldest parts of the church, dating to the 13th century. In 1897, The Stanley chapel designed by British architect Sir Gilbert Scott was added to the south of the church for local politician William Owen Stanley and contains a life-size Carrera marble sculpture of Stanley by Hamo Thornycroft. A sun dial with the inscription "Yr hoedl ar hyd ei haros a dderfydd yn nydd ac yn nos", which translates to "Life though long it stay will end in night and day", is located on the south transept. Ornamental figures are located throughout the church, both inside and out. In 2012, the National Lottery Heritage Fund granted the church £4800 to restore the church tower. References External links Media related to St Cybi's Church, Holyhead at Wikimedia Commons
Plas Machen

Plas Machen is a country house in the hamlet of Lower Machen, to the west of the city of Newport, Wales. The house was the ancestral home of the Morgan family of South Wales prior to their construction of Tredegar House. It is a Grade II* listed building. The gardens are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. A pair of cottages in the grounds of the house are also listed at Grade II. The house remains a private residence and is not open to the public. History Morgans of Machen and Tredegar The earliest recorded link between the Morgan family of South Wales and Machen is to the building of Plas Machen by "Morgan of Machen who led men of Gwent at Bosworth in 1485". In the following centuries, the family became one of the wealthiest and most powerful in South Wales. In the 1660s William Morgan (c.1640-1680) rebuilt Tredegar House as the centrepiece of the family's estates in Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire and Brecknockshire. In the 19th century, Sir Charles Morgan was created Baron Tredegar, and in the early 20th century, his son Godfrey was elevated in the peerage as Viscount Tredegar. The viscountcy was revived for his nephew, Courtenay Morgan, in 1926, but became extinct on the death of Courtenay's son, Evan in 1949, after which the family's landholdings in South Wales were sold. Plas Machen The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales gives building dates for Plas Machen as the "15th, 16th, 17th centur[ies] and later". Cadw suggests that the house reached its greatest extent in the 1600s, before being superseded by Tredegar House as the family's main residence. It was much reduced in size in the 19th century, before restoration by Habershon and Pite in 1859. The Morgans retained ownership, although they ceased to live at the house by around 1800. The house, and some associated barns, were restored in the 21st century. Architecture and description The house is built of rubble stone with brick chimney stacks. Archdeacon Coxe saw the house when it was still complete during a visit in 1800 and recorded his impressions in his two-volume, An Historical Tour in Monmouthshire. Of the interior, Coxe noted a circular room devoted to hunting, with a ceiling centrepiece of the goddess Diana and decorative scenes depicting important local houses and churches, together with hunting images. This was located in part of the house subsequently demolished. The gardens retain their Tudor skeleton, with a series of terraces and axes leading down to a fish pond. While the outline of the formal gardens remains, much has now been returned to pasture. Plas Machen is a Grade II* listed building. Its gardens and grounds are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. A pair of cottages also have a Grade II listing. Notes References External links
Church of St Basil, Bassaleg

St Basil's Church stands in the village of Bassaleg, to the west of the city of Newport, Wales. It is an active parish church and a Grade II* listed building. St Basil's sits within the Tredegar Park Ministry Area which covers an area at the west of the city of Newport. It also hosts a community choir. History Cadw dates the church to the 14th century, although it stands on the site of an earlier priory. The church was restored between 1878 and 1879 by Habershon and Fawckner and renovated in 1902–03 by Charles Busteed Fowler. Since the very early 19th century a chapel within the church has been used as mausoleum for the Morgan family, prominent local landowners whose Tredegar House estate lies just to the south; this chapel was rebuilt in 1916 by W. D. Caröe for Courtenay Morgan. There is also a Morgan family burial plot in the church graveyard, which was renovated in the 21st century by the Lord Tredegar Memorial Trust. A memorial in the churchyard commemorates Gwyneth Ericka Morgan (1895–c.1924), the daughter of Courtenay Morgan, who is also buried in the plot. Her disappearance in 1924, and the recovery of her body from the River Thames in 1925 was the subject of much speculation. Gwyneth was originally buried in London, but was re-interred at St Basil's after her brother, Evan Morgan, succeeded their father as head of the Morgan family in 1934. Gwyneth Morgan was the last member of the family to be buried at St Basil's, as her brother and subsequent heads of the family were catholics and buried elsewhere, the last dying in 1962. Architecture and description St Basil's is constructed of stone with a slate roof. The church comprises a nave, chancel, porch, an "unusually large" west tower, and the Morgan family chapel to the northeast. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales notes the "particularly fine" Morgan monuments dating from 1806 onwards. Works include memorials to Maria Morgan by Richard Westmacott, to Sir Charles Morgan, 1st Baronet by Coade & Sealy in their patented Coade stone, and to Sir Charles Morgan, 2nd Baronet by John Evan Thomas. The church also has stained glass by Kempe & Co. St Basil's is a Grade II* listed building. The lychgate has its own Grade II listing. A church hall was constructed in the early 21st century. Gallery Notes References Book Channon, Henry (2022). Simon Heffer (ed.). Henry "Chips" Channon - The Diaries: 1943-1957. London: Hutchinson. ISBN 978-1-529-15172-5. OCLC 1338648382.
South African War Memorial, Cardiff

The South African War Memorial, also known as the Boer War Memorial, is a war memorial in Cardiff, Wales. It was erected in 1908 and unveiled by General Sir John French on 20 November 1909 to honour the victims of the Second Boer War. It is a Grade II* listed structure. Design The memorial was sculpted by the English sculptor, Albert Toft. It stands at the south end of Edward VII Avenue, between the Cardiff Crown Court and City Hall in Cathays Park and is the centre of a U bend in the cul-de-sac. It was moved to its present location in the 1970s. The memorial consists of a bronze winged figure of peace holding an uprooted olive tree and standing on an orb, mounted on Portland Stone plinth with granite steps. On each corner stands metal lampstands with glass globe. It has two figures, a seated male figure (representing war and courage), on the western side (left of the main inscription), holding a sword & leaning on a shield. A seated female figure (representing grief) on the eastern side (right of the main inscription), holding a wreath and also leaning on a shield. The memorial is dedicated to "Welshmen" who served in a variety of units during the war. Inscriptions See also Welsh National War Memorial South African War Memorial for other Boer War memorials Notes External links Media related to South African War Memorial, Cardiff at Wikimedia Commons
Machen House

Machen House is a country house in the hamlet of Lower Machen, to the west of the city of Newport, Wales. The house was built in 1831 for the Rev. Charles Augustus Morgan, vicar of Machen and scion of the Morgan family of Tredegar House. In the mid-20th century, Machen was the home of the Conservative politician Peter Thorneycroft, who sat as the Member of Parliament for Monmouth. Machen House is a Grade II* listed building. Its gardens and grounds amount to around 28-acres and are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. A bothy and a bee bole in the grounds of the house are both listed at Grade II. The house remains a private residence and is not open to the public. History Machen House was built in 1831 for the Rev. Charles Augustus Morgan, vicar of Machen and the younger brother of Charles Morgan, 1st Baron Tredegar. The Morgans lived on the Tredegar House estate, and were major landowners in South Wales. In the mid-20th century, Machen was the home of Peter Thorneycroft, Conservative Member of Parliament for Monmouth, and Chancellor of the Exchequer in the government of Harold Macmillan. It remains a private residence and is not open to the public. In 2022, the property was offered for sale at £1,950,000. In 2026, the property was offered for sale at £2,500,000, having received renovation works since the previous listing. Architecture and description Cadw notes the Georgian style of the house is supplemented by some Gothic features. Machen House is a Grade II* listed building. The architectural historian John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of the Pevsner Buildings of Wales series, writes that "much remains of the Rev. Morgan's elaborate grounds". The gardens also have a number of Gothic features, including castellated walls and the remains of a Chinese Willow pattern bridge, which crosses one of the two small lakes. They are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales. A bothy and a bee bole in the grounds both have Grade II listings. Gallery Notes References Sources Newman, John (2000). Gwent/Monmouthshire. The Buildings of Wales. London: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-140-71053-3. OCLC 248110170. External links Sales particulars from 2022
City United Reformed Church

City United Reformed Church is a Grade II*-listed building located in Windsor Place, Cardiff. Originally constructed in 1866, it was listed in 1975. The church was designed in a Neogothic style by the Scottish architect Frederick Thomas Pilkington, and originally belonged to the Presbyterian denomination. The same architect was also responsible for Barclay Viewforth Church in Edinburgh. Pilkington made a point of using local materials and created a gabled roof with an octagonal spire. In 1893, the west front was redesigned by another architect, E. M. Bruce Vaughan, who built a new porch. After a fire in 1910, Vaughan added a new hammerbeam roof. In 1972, when the United Reformed Church was created by a merger of the Congregational Church in England and Wales and the Presbyterian Church of England, City URC became part of the Province of Wales within the new denomination. References External links Media related to City United Reformed Church, Cardiff at Wikimedia Commons