Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wall extending west from near the Dovecote in the Garden of St Fagans Castle
St. Fagans, Cardiff, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 6 October 1977
- Locality
- Museum of Welsh Life, St Fagans
- Town
- Cardiff
- Community
- St. Fagans
- Unitary authority
- Cardiff
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 51.48767, -3.27083
- Cadw reference
- 13900
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
One of the associated structures in the gardens of St Fagans Castle and part of the Museum of Welsh Life.
History
Possibly C17 and the former north boundary wall of the castle grounds, to south of the site of old St Fagans Church and Churchyard, as shown on the Plymouth Estate Plan of 1766. The wall was kept deliberately ('Our old old friend the ivy green/Helps to enrich the picturesque scene') as a part of the garden improvements by James Pulham & Co. between 1874-6.
Exterior
Old wall of stone rubble, broken in several places and now very overgrown by ivy. An opening with stone dressings set within the wall.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the structures associated with the gardens and estate of St. Fagans Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Dovecote in Gardens of St Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Stryd Lydan BarnEducationunder 1 mi
- Boundary Walls of the Northern Enclosure containing the Esgair Moel Woollen Mill, with the GazeboDomesticunder 1 mi
- West & South Boundary Walls of Gardens to St Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.