St Fagans Castle

Dr Bethan Scorey is an architectural historian and illustrator from Cardiff. She first discovered her passion for historic buildings while working as a guide at St Fagans National Museum of History, an open-air museum filled with buildings – from an Iron Age roundhouse to a 1940s prefab. The subject of her PhD was St Fagans Castle, the Elizabethan country house at the heart of the museum. Today, you can find Bethan co-presenting the S4C television programme Cartrefi Cymru, which explores the history and evolution of houses in Wales. She loves nothing more than setting out on adventure to find an historic building.

• AcknowledgementsList of IllustrationsList of AbbreviationsGenealogiesFloor PlansMaps of GroundsIntroductionChapter 1:‘A Faire Howse Within the Old Walls of a Castle’The Early History of St Fagans Castle to 1736Medieval St FagansDr John GibbonArrival of Renaissance Architecture in England and WalesDesign of St Fagans CastleLewis Family of Y FanElizabethan and Jacobean GardensChapter 2:‘This ancient Castle of your ancestors’The Windsor family and St Fagans Castle, 1736–1878Windsor Family as Absentee LandlordsTaking St Fagans Castle in HandRobert Windsor-Clive’s Watercolour ProposalWilliam Parry James and the 1867–9 SchemeHarriet Windsor-Clive and the ‘Gothicising’ of St Fagans CastleMary Windsor-Clive and her ‘Wild’ Additions to the GardensChapter 3:‘Enchanted land of Arthurian romance’Robert George and Gay Windsor-Clive and St Fagans Castle, 1878–1923Introducing Robert and Gay Windsor-CliveThe New House at Hewell GrangeSt Fagans Castle as a Foil to Hewell GrangeEdwardian ‘Garden Rooms’Enclosed ParkHugh A. Pettigrew’s Contribution to the GardensThe Next GenerationBibliography