Castell Coch Castle Coch or Red Castle, Tongwynlais, Cardiff, Wales
by Neale And Judith Clark
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Castell Coch Castle Coch or Red Castle, Tongwynlais, Cardiff, Wales
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Neale And Judith Clark
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Castell Coch, Castle Coch or Red Castle, Tongwynlais ,Cardiff, South Glamorgan, South Wales, UK, GB, Europe
Alamy ref:2JN6M26
Castell Coch Welsh for 'Red Castle' is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales. John Crichton-Stuart, 3rd Marquess of Bute, inherited the castle in 1848 and he employed the architect William Burges to rebuild the castle, "as a country residence for occasional occupation in the summer", using the medieval remains as a basis for the design. Burges rebuilt the outside of the castle between 1875 and 1879, before turning to the interior; he died in 1881 and the work was finished by Burges's remaining team in 1891. Burges's main inspiration was the work of the almost contemporaneous French architect Eugène Viollet-le-Duc. Castell Coch occupies a stretch of woodland on the slopes above the village of Tongwynlais and the River Taff, about 10.6 kilometres north-west of the centre of Cardiff.The architecture is High Victorian Gothic Revival in style, influenced by contemporary 19th-century French restorations.Its design combines the surviving elements of the medieval castle with 19th-century additions to produce a building which the historian Charles Kightly considered "the crowning glory of the Gothic Revival" in Britain. It is protected under UK law as a Grade I listed building due to its exceptional architectural and historical interest
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