Hensol Castle
Hensol Castle | |
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Castell Hensol | |
Hensol Castle within the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales | |
Former names | Hensol House |
General information | |
Status | Private venue |
Type | Castellated mansion |
Architectural style | Gothic |
Location | Pendoylan, Vale of Glamorgan |
Address | Hensol Castle Park, Hensol, Vale of Glamorgan, CF72 8JX |
Country | Wales |
Coordinates | 51°30′04″N 3°22′25″W / 51.5012°N 3.3737°W |
Owner | Leekes |
Affiliation | The Vale Resort |
Designations | Grade I Listed |
Website | |
hensolcastle | |
Listed Building – Grade I |
Hensol Castle (previously Hensol House) is a
Architecture
This substantially extended mansion is something of an
Occupants
Early history
The Hensol estate dates from at least 1419.[6] It was owned by the Jenkins family in the seventeenth century,[7] and the house was said to have been built by David Jenkins' great-grandfather, David Tew.[8]
The famous judge
The 1670
An annual assembly of the
Eighteenth century
The Jenkins male line became extinct with Richard Jenkins’ death in 1721 and the estate passed to Charles Talbot (1685–1737)
The present house was either newly built, or was an extensive remodelling of the manor of the Jenkins family, in around 1735.[5][21] In 1780, William Talbot, 2nd Baron Talbot of Hensol, later 1st Earl Talbot, was created the 1st Baron Dynevor[25] with a special remainder in favour of his only child, a daughter, Cecil Rice, and "the heirs male of her body". She had married George Rice of Newtown House, Dinefwr Park, Llandeilo.[26] In 1782 William Talbot died, the Earldom became extinct, and the barony of Talbot of Hensol passed to his nephew, John Chetwynd Talbot (1749–1793), for whom the title Earl Talbot was revived. The title Baron Talbot of Hensol is still held by the Earl of Shrewsbury, the premier earl in England and Ireland.
In 1789 the estate was sold by the Talbot family to Samuel Richardson (1739–1824),[5][16] a banker,[27] who may have modified the south front of the house, and who was High Sheriff of Gloucestershire in 1787 and of Glamorgan in 1798.[28] He is said to have been a pioneer in agriculture and made many improvements to the Hensol estate, including land drainage and introducing the threshing machine.[18][29]
Samuel Richardson left in 1815,
Nineteenth century
Following the early death of the second Benjamin Hall in 1817, Hensol was put on the market in 1824[36] and passed to his widow's Crawshay family, Hensol being bought by her nephew, the "Iron King" of Merthyr Tydfil. William Crawshay II (1788–1867), who later built Cyfarthfa Castle.[1][21] William Crawshay was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1829.
Another ironmaster, Rowland Fothergill (1794–1871) of Abernant[37] bought Hensol in 1838,[1][38] and soon employed T.H. Wyatt and David Brandon to remodel it.[5] Despite being a county magistrate, he was convicted in 1844 of inflicting a serious injury with a pitchfork on a Mr. Brown, the superintendent of his farms. The plaintiff was awarded £500 damages.[39] Fothergill was High Sheriff of Glamorgan in 1850.[14] In 1853 he commissioned David Brandon to rebuild Pendoylan Parish Church.
On Fothergill's death the estate passed to his unmarried sister, Mary (1797–1887). She built and endowed a new school building for Pendoylan in his memory in 1873. On her death, Hensol passed to her sister Ann Tarleton-Fothergill (1802–1895), the estate passing to her daughter, Lady Isabella Elizabeth Price Fothergill (1839–1918), who had married Sir Rose Lambart
Twentieth century
Their first son, Lieutenant Sir Rose Price (1878–1901) was killed in action at Villesdorp in the
In November 1926 he sold the castle and estate of 1,082 acres (4.38 km2) to Glamorgan County Council for the sum of £36,500 for use as a County mental hospital.[45] Part of the estate was divided up into smallholdings.[46]
Hensol hospital was opened in July 1930
The hospital closed in 2003 and the castle and grounds were bought by local businessman Gerald Leeke, chairman of the Leekes group of companies who had previously built the 145-bed Vale of Glamorgan Hotel, Golf and Spa Resort on adjacent land. Some of the former hospital buildings have been converted into apartments.
The interior of Hensol Castle was used to stand-in for parts of
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