page_title: Architecture of Wales
section_title: Plas Rhianfa
hierarchical_section_title: Architecture of Wales / Gothic Revivalism and Historicism of the 18th and 19th Centuries. / Plas Rhianfa
caption_attribution_description: English: Plas Rhianfa - Yours for a mere £3.25 million This newly restored chateau, used as holiday accommodation until recently, is now on the market. It comes with its own bus stop. http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2008/03/19/3-25m-house-on-anglesey-55578-20643220/ - http://www.rightmove.co.uk/viewdetails-17885281.rsp?pa_n=1&amp;tr_t=buy -
context_page_description: Architecture of Wales is an overview of architecture in Wales from the Medieval period to the present day, excluding castles and fortifications, ecclesiastical architecture and industrial architecture. It covers the history of domestic, commercial, and administrative architecture.
context_section_description: An important development in the development in Gothic rival architecture in Wales was the building of Plas Rhianfa (recently renamed Chateau Rhianfa) in 1849–1850. Plas Rhianfa in Llandegfan near Beaumaris overlooks the Menai Straights. The architect was Charles Verelst of Liverpool, who was also known as Charles Reed, but the building was inspired by Lady Sarah Hay Williams of Bodelwyddan Castle, who commissioned the building for her two daughters. Lady Hay Williams, an artist, had sketched the Chateau of the Loire, and presumably greatly influenced the designs of her architect. (She may also have been influenced by Harry Longeville Jones who was living close to Beaumaris at the time and was a writer on French Gothic architecture.) The house is described as a forest of steep French roofs covered in fish tail slates, and a skyline fretted with curved and straight pitches and spires, which are level with the road at the back. On the seaward front narrow drum towers with conical roofs. Inside there are highly decorative fireplaces, similar to those in Bodelwyddan Castle, which can be seen as precursors to similar decorative work at Cardiff Castle by William Burges. Stylistically this is the architecture that Eugène Viollet-le-Duc was pioneering in France and it predates the publication of Henry Clutton's Remarks.....on the domestic architecture of France which was published in 1853.
caption: Plas Rhianfa
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