page_title: Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan
section_title: History of the house
hierarchical_section_title: Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan / History of the house
caption_attribution_description: English: Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan. South wing interior. Lloyd Armorials of 1597 over fireplace.
context_page_description: Faenol Fawr is an Elizabethan ‘H’ plan mansion with crow stepped gables. The house is situated immediately to the north of Glan Clwyd Hospital in the parish of Bodelwyddan in the historic county of Flintshire, but now in Denbighshire. It was formerly in the township of Faenol, which until 1860 was in the parish of St. Asaph.
  Thomas Pennant passed by Faenol Fawr in his Tour to Snowdonia in 1776, when he records: In a very wet situation, beneath Kinmael, is Vaenol; one of the best old houses in the county of Flint. It was built in 1595, by John Lloyd…. register of St Asaph in the reign of Queen Elizabeth; a place extremely profitable, before the powers of the church were abridged. An extra illustrated copy of the Tour in Wales in the National Library of Wales, has a water-colour of Faenol Fawr in about 1776, which shows that present building is little changed in appearance.
  The house is listed Grade II*, as is the dovecote to the west of the house. There is another smaller and earlier house with a cyclopean doorway that is now joined to the main house.
context_section_description: In August 1887 the house was visited by the Cambrian Archaeological Association. 
  They reported that:
  The picturesque manor-house of Vaenol, with its stepped gables, is an interesting specimen of an Elizabethan mansion, having been built by John Lloyd, Registrar of the diocese of St Asaph, in 1597, as shown by a shield of arms with the initialsI.LL. M.LL. 1597. His daughter and heiress, married William Price of Rhiwlas (near Bala), in whose family it continued until a few years ago, when it was sold to the Baronet of Bodelwyddan. Over the entrance door was carved the legend VIVE UT Vivas 1725, and other internal arrangements were indicated by the dates 1690 and  1770. The paneling and ceiling of the drawing room, with its shields and arms is handsome. The great hall has been subdivided and the stairs cut off in one direction, and the great fireplace in another.
  A detailed photographic record of the house  was made in 1954 by George Bernard Mason, as part of the National Buildings Record survey. This shows the house and farm buildings in a dilapidated state and provides a record of the house before the fire of 1980.
caption: Faenol Fawr, Bodelwyddan. South wing interior. Lloyd Armorials of 1597 over fireplace.
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