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Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
Originally constructured in the 13th Century by Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, prince of Powys. Sir Edward Herbert acquired the castle in 1587, and initiated its creation into a country house. The castle’s highlight is the Clive Museum—containing items (1600-1830) purchased, received as gifts and/or looted by Robert and his son Edward Clive through their work with the East India Company.
A visit to Powis Castle, another National Trust property. You are not allowed to take photo inside of the castle (items in private ownership), but it's fine around the exteriors and gardens. Anyone caught trying to take a photo inside gets told off by one of the guides inside the castle, so it wasn't worth the bother (bit frustrating when going around the castle). At least the outside areas makes up for what I couldn't take.
Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company.
The castle has also been known as Castell Coch, Castell Pool, Castell Pola, Castell Pole, Castell Trallwng, Red Castle, Redde Castle and Castel Cough.
The seat of the Earl of Powis, the castle is known for its extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust.
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) visited the castle as a child when her mother took her to tour England and Wales in 1832.
Statue of Fame
Grade II* Listed
Statue of Fame in entrance courtyard at Powis Castle
Exterior
History: The statue is signed by Andries Carpentiere, a pupil of John van Nost; it was probably cast from the same mould supplied by Van Nost to Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stonyhurst, Lancashire sometime between 1705 and 1716. This example was probably cast using Montgomeryshire lead from the Llangynog mines owned by the Powis family. Its original position at Powis was as the centrepiece of a fountain in the Baroque water gardens at the foot of the garden terraces which had been largely completed by 1705. The water garden was demolished between 1801 and 1809, and the statue was then moved and re- sited over the W gateway into the courtyard. Some time after this, it was removed to the centre of the courtyard, where G.F.Bodley designed a basin for it. This was unsuccessful, however, although the statue itself remained in the courtyard. Restored in 1987, the lead trophy of arms (based on the original work which formed the source for the group by Antoine Coysevox for Louis XIV) and the stone plinth were added at that time.
Description: Lead statue mounted on a stone base. The statue depicts the winged female figure of Fame borne by Pegasus.
A fine example of Baroque sculpture which forms a dramatic centrepiece at the entrance to the castle, and which is of additional historical interest as it was made for the castle - a relic of the lost water-gardens.
Reference: National Trust, Powis Castle, 1988, p.6, 38-42.
From the Top Terrace.
A visit to Powis Castle, another National Trust property. You are not allowed to take photo inside of the castle (items in private ownership), but it's fine around the exteriors and gardens. Anyone caught trying to take a photo inside gets told off by one of the guides inside the castle, so it wasn't worth the bother (bit frustrating when going around the castle). At least the outside areas makes up for what I couldn't take.
Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company.
The castle has also been known as Castell Coch, Castell Pool, Castell Pola, Castell Pole, Castell Trallwng, Red Castle, Redde Castle and Castel Cough.
The seat of the Earl of Powis, the castle is known for its extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust.
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) visited the castle as a child when her mother took her to tour England and Wales in 1832.
Ballroom Range.
Grade I Listed Building
Ballroom Range at Powis Castle
Exterior
History: Powis Castle was established as a Welsh stronghold, probably of Owain Cyfeiliog and his heirs, from c1170, and parts of the surviving structure are thought to date from the late C12-early C13. The castle was sacked in c1275, and Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn paid homage to Edward I in 1286: a substantial programme of rebuilding followed - the layout, and much of the structure of the present buildings were determined in this work of c1300, and the ballroom range incorporates a substantial part of the N curtain wall of the outer bailey of the medieval castle. In the late medieval period, it seems to have been in separate occupation for a time (as one of the 'two lords marcher castells' identified by Leland in the 1530's). After the castle was acquired by the Herbert family in 1587, it was gradually remodelled as a country house: this range was probably substantially reconstructed at some time during the late C16-C17: the S wall to the courtyard may have been rebuilt, and the upper storey layout was probably established at this period: it housed a long gallery separated from the main castle by a fire in c1745. Some of the fenestration (though the detail has been subsequently renewed) is probably of this period, and on its outer wall, the traces of a former gabled roof-line are clearly visible. This roofline was recorded by Thomas Dineley in 1684, and may have survived until T.F. Pritchard's work in the 1770's: the building was restored and remodelled as a ballroom and gallery 1773-5 by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect, of Shrewsbury. The round-arched sash windows which he inserted were replaced with mullioned and transomed lights by Bodley, c1902-4.
Exterior: Red sandstone, with flat roof behind embattled parapet (replacing earlier gabled roofline, the scars of which are still visible in the N wall); cylindrical chimney shafts, probably late C16. 3 storeyed, the outer wall represents the curtain wall of the medieval outer bailey, and retains angle tower and projecting drum tower, with remains of garderobe in its angle. S elevation is a 6-window range, with slightly advanced central section. C16-C17-type fenestration throughout, probably partly a survival, with some renewal work by Bodley; some blocked earlier openings visible in N wall.
Interior: The ground floor retains some of the internal layout of the medieval building, while the first floor is as remodelled by T.F.Pritchard, though the ballroom was shortened to create what is now the Clive Museum (but previously a billiard room), 1902-4. Both rooms have minimal low-relief applied plasterwork decoration by Joseph Bromfield, partly obscured in the ballroom by the late C18 library furniture which was brought here from Walcot, Shropshire in 1929, and in the museum by the cases designed to house the Clive Collection in 1987 (designed by Alec Cobbe and made by John Hart). Orchestra gallery over entrance to ballroom, with plaster frieze. Paired Neo-Classical fireplaces in rear wall (one in Clive Museum). The ball-room retains its late C18 coved ceiling.
References: Richard Haslam, Powys, Buildings of Wales series, 1979, pp.189-192;
The National Trust, Powis Castle, 1988 and 1994.
Clive of India. The Clive Museum. Wasn't able to get much here due to the rules. But got these.
Bust of Robert Clive.
A visit to Powis Castle, another National Trust property. You are not allowed to take photo inside of the castle (items in private ownership), but it's fine around the exteriors and gardens. Anyone caught trying to take a photo inside gets told off by one of the guides inside the castle, so it wasn't worth the bother (bit frustrating when going around the castle). At least the outside areas makes up for what I couldn't take.
Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company.
The castle has also been known as Castell Coch, Castell Pool, Castell Pola, Castell Pole, Castell Trallwng, Red Castle, Redde Castle and Castel Cough.
The seat of the Earl of Powis, the castle is known for its extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust.
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) visited the castle as a child when her mother took her to tour England and Wales in 1832.
Ballroom Range.
Grade I Listed Building
Ballroom Range at Powis Castle
Exterior
History: Powis Castle was established as a Welsh stronghold, probably of Owain Cyfeiliog and his heirs, from c1170, and parts of the surviving structure are thought to date from the late C12-early C13. The castle was sacked in c1275, and Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn paid homage to Edward I in 1286: a substantial programme of rebuilding followed - the layout, and much of the structure of the present buildings were determined in this work of c1300, and the ballroom range incorporates a substantial part of the N curtain wall of the outer bailey of the medieval castle. In the late medieval period, it seems to have been in separate occupation for a time (as one of the 'two lords marcher castells' identified by Leland in the 1530's). After the castle was acquired by the Herbert family in 1587, it was gradually remodelled as a country house: this range was probably substantially reconstructed at some time during the late C16-C17: the S wall to the courtyard may have been rebuilt, and the upper storey layout was probably established at this period: it housed a long gallery separated from the main castle by a fire in c1745. Some of the fenestration (though the detail has been subsequently renewed) is probably of this period, and on its outer wall, the traces of a former gabled roof-line are clearly visible. This roofline was recorded by Thomas Dineley in 1684, and may have survived until T.F. Pritchard's work in the 1770's: the building was restored and remodelled as a ballroom and gallery 1773-5 by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect, of Shrewsbury. The round-arched sash windows which he inserted were replaced with mullioned and transomed lights by Bodley, c1902-4.
Exterior: Red sandstone, with flat roof behind embattled parapet (replacing earlier gabled roofline, the scars of which are still visible in the N wall); cylindrical chimney shafts, probably late C16. 3 storeyed, the outer wall represents the curtain wall of the medieval outer bailey, and retains angle tower and projecting drum tower, with remains of garderobe in its angle. S elevation is a 6-window range, with slightly advanced central section. C16-C17-type fenestration throughout, probably partly a survival, with some renewal work by Bodley; some blocked earlier openings visible in N wall.
Interior: The ground floor retains some of the internal layout of the medieval building, while the first floor is as remodelled by T.F.Pritchard, though the ballroom was shortened to create what is now the Clive Museum (but previously a billiard room), 1902-4. Both rooms have minimal low-relief applied plasterwork decoration by Joseph Bromfield, partly obscured in the ballroom by the late C18 library furniture which was brought here from Walcot, Shropshire in 1929, and in the museum by the cases designed to house the Clive Collection in 1987 (designed by Alec Cobbe and made by John Hart). Orchestra gallery over entrance to ballroom, with plaster frieze. Paired Neo-Classical fireplaces in rear wall (one in Clive Museum). The ball-room retains its late C18 coved ceiling.
References: Richard Haslam, Powys, Buildings of Wales series, 1979, pp.189-192;
The National Trust, Powis Castle, 1988 and 1994.
Clive of India. The Clive Museum. Wasn't able to get much here due to the rules. But got these.
sign - no photos - Please help us care for the Ballroom and Clive Museum
A visit to Powis Castle, another National Trust property. You are not allowed to take photo inside of the castle (items in private ownership), but it's fine around the exteriors and gardens. Anyone caught trying to take a photo inside gets told off by one of the guides inside the castle, so it wasn't worth the bother (bit frustrating when going around the castle). At least the outside areas makes up for what I couldn't take.
Powis Castle (Welsh: Castell Powys) is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country mansion near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales.
It is known for housing the treasures that were brought home by Robert Clive and his son, Edward Clive from India. The Clives obtained them during their service with the British East India Company.
The castle has also been known as Castell Coch, Castell Pool, Castell Pola, Castell Pole, Castell Trallwng, Red Castle, Redde Castle and Castel Cough.
The seat of the Earl of Powis, the castle is known for its extensive, attractive formal gardens, terraces, parkland, deerpark and landscaped estate. The property is under the care of the National Trust.
Princess Victoria (later Queen Victoria) visited the castle as a child when her mother took her to tour England and Wales in 1832.
Ballroom Range.
Grade I Listed Building
Ballroom Range at Powis Castle
Exterior
History: Powis Castle was established as a Welsh stronghold, probably of Owain Cyfeiliog and his heirs, from c1170, and parts of the surviving structure are thought to date from the late C12-early C13. The castle was sacked in c1275, and Owain ap Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn paid homage to Edward I in 1286: a substantial programme of rebuilding followed - the layout, and much of the structure of the present buildings were determined in this work of c1300, and the ballroom range incorporates a substantial part of the N curtain wall of the outer bailey of the medieval castle. In the late medieval period, it seems to have been in separate occupation for a time (as one of the 'two lords marcher castells' identified by Leland in the 1530's). After the castle was acquired by the Herbert family in 1587, it was gradually remodelled as a country house: this range was probably substantially reconstructed at some time during the late C16-C17: the S wall to the courtyard may have been rebuilt, and the upper storey layout was probably established at this period: it housed a long gallery separated from the main castle by a fire in c1745. Some of the fenestration (though the detail has been subsequently renewed) is probably of this period, and on its outer wall, the traces of a former gabled roof-line are clearly visible. This roofline was recorded by Thomas Dineley in 1684, and may have survived until T.F. Pritchard's work in the 1770's: the building was restored and remodelled as a ballroom and gallery 1773-5 by Thomas Farnolls Pritchard, architect, of Shrewsbury. The round-arched sash windows which he inserted were replaced with mullioned and transomed lights by Bodley, c1902-4.
Exterior: Red sandstone, with flat roof behind embattled parapet (replacing earlier gabled roofline, the scars of which are still visible in the N wall); cylindrical chimney shafts, probably late C16. 3 storeyed, the outer wall represents the curtain wall of the medieval outer bailey, and retains angle tower and projecting drum tower, with remains of garderobe in its angle. S elevation is a 6-window range, with slightly advanced central section. C16-C17-type fenestration throughout, probably partly a survival, with some renewal work by Bodley; some blocked earlier openings visible in N wall.
Interior: The ground floor retains some of the internal layout of the medieval building, while the first floor is as remodelled by T.F.Pritchard, though the ballroom was shortened to create what is now the Clive Museum (but previously a billiard room), 1902-4. Both rooms have minimal low-relief applied plasterwork decoration by Joseph Bromfield, partly obscured in the ballroom by the late C18 library furniture which was brought here from Walcot, Shropshire in 1929, and in the museum by the cases designed to house the Clive Collection in 1987 (designed by Alec Cobbe and made by John Hart). Orchestra gallery over entrance to ballroom, with plaster frieze. Paired Neo-Classical fireplaces in rear wall (one in Clive Museum). The ball-room retains its late C18 coved ceiling.
References: Richard Haslam, Powys, Buildings of Wales series, 1979, pp.189-192;
The National Trust, Powis Castle, 1988 and 1994.
Clive of India. The Clive Museum. Wasn't able to get much here due to the rules. But got these.
Sign - probably used to be on a train at one point.