page_title: Llanvihangel Court
section_title: Garden and estate
hierarchical_section_title: Llanvihangel Court / Garden and estate
caption_attribution_description: English: Stables at Llanvihangel Court, Llanvihangel Crucorney, Monmouthshire
context_page_description: Llanvihangel Court, Llanvihangel Crucorney, is a Tudor country house in Monmouthshire, Wales. The architectural historian John Newman, in his Gwent/Monmouthshire volume of The Buildings of Wales series described the court as "the most impressive and richly decorated house of around 1600 in Monmouthshire". The origins of the house are medieval, with a traditional date of construction of 1471. The building was given its present appearance by a substantial enlargement and re-casing of circa 1600 by Rhys Morgan, of the family of the original owners. In the very early 17th century it was owned briefly by Edward Somerset, 4th Earl of Worcester.
  In 1627 it was purchased by Nicholas Arnold and was further extended by him and by his heir John. Nicholas Arnold was a noted horse-breeder as well as Member of Parliament for Monmouthshire and was responsible for the construction of the Stable Block at Llanvihangel. His son was a notorious anti-Papist and Llanvihangel became a centre of the campaign against Monmouthshire recusants.
  The court had a number of owners in the 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, including the Earls of Oxford and Earls Mortimer.
context_section_description: The grounds and outbuildings are also of note. Nicholas Arnold laid out the gardens to the court in the mid-17th century. An oil painting in the hall shows the results. The plan is axial, the court at the centre, surrounded by terraces, and with two long avenues of trees, pines to the north and sweet chesnuts to the south. The gardening writer Helena Attlee 
  notes Arnold's intention to "broadcast wealth, power and permanence". Writing in 1953, C.J.O. Evans noted that the "Scots pine are 200 years old, and many of them are now nearly dead".
  The Stable Block is "a great rarity dating from 1630–40 and largely unaltered". It is a Grade I listed building in its own right.
  Near the lake there is a small brick summerhouse, also called the Guardhouse or Garden House, which was originally one of a pair completing a walled enclosure around the court. Attlee suggests there may have been three such structures, although the third may have been a dovecote. The Garden House has its own Grade II* listed designation.
  Other buildings in the courtyard complex and gardens with their own Grade II listings include the barn attached to the stables, the cider house, the coach house, the garden walls, terraces and gate piers and the walled garden.
caption: The Stable block
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