Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
West wall of the Dutch Garden at St Fagans Castle with the battlement wall and watchtowers
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
- 51.48694, -3.26927
- Cadw reference
- 82252
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
The 'Battlement Walk' appears to incorporate some old, possibly medieval structure, though its present form is possibly a garden feature of the early C17 at a period when raised walks were popular for viewing the parterres as well as for wider views without the enclosed gardens. The 'Watchtower' is probably an early/mid C19 structure, dating probably from the same period as the earlier of the terraces below. It is shown on the estate plan of c1855.
Exterior
The 'Battlement Walk' is a high wall of stone rubble with battlements and a parapet walk. This extends north-westwards as far as the 'Watchtower', which is built of stone and has a parapet on northern, southern and western sides similar to the terrace parapets. The western wall is pierced by ventilators; there is a ground floor doorway and external stone stair rising up from the wall walk on the eastern side and forming on the western side a small turret in the angle between the wall walk and the south wall of the tower. The 'Battlement Walk' is pierced at its southern end by an arch with cambered head.
Reason for designation
Included as one of the structures associated with the gardens and estate of St. Fagans Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Gates, Piers, Steps and Balustrade Wall bounding north side of Dutch Garden at St. Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Italian Terraces on north-east side of Fishponds in Garden of St Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Fountain to north of St Fagans Castle in the Dutch GardenDomesticunder 1 mi
- Wall bounding north side & part of east side of the Mulberry Garden to north of St Fagans CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.