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Took advantage today of a rare dry day in between the many rainy ones to make use of our #nationaltrust membership to visit beautiful Powis Castle near Welshpool, Powys, Wales.
Powis Castle is a medieval castle, fortress and grand country house near Welshpool, in Powys, Wales. The seat of the Herbert family, earls of Powis, the castle is known for its formal gardens and for its interiors, the former having been described as "the most important", and the latter "the most magnificent", in the country. The castle and gardens are under the care of the National Trust. Powis Castle is a Grade I listed building, while its gardens have their own Grade I listing on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
The present castle was built in the 13th century. Unusually for a castle on the Marches, it was constructed by a Welsh prince, Gruffydd ap Gwenwynwyn, rather than by a Norman baron. Gruffydd was prince of the ancient Kingdom of Powys and maintained an alliance with the English king Edward I during the struggles of the later 13th century. He was able to secure the position of his son, Owain, although the kingdom itself was abolished by the Parliament of Shrewsbury in 1283. After his father's death, Owain was raised to the peerage as Owen de la Pole, 1st Lord of Powis. Following his own death c. 1293, and the death of his only son, he was succeeded by his daughter, Hawys Gadarn, "the Lady of Powis". Hawys married Sir John Charlton in 1309.
In the late 16th century the castle was purchased by Edward Herbert, a younger son of the earl of Pembroke, beginning a connection between the family and the castle that continues today. The Herberts remained Roman Catholic until the 18th century and, although rising in the peerage to earls, marquesses and Jacobite dukes of Powis, suffered periods of imprisonment and exile. Despite these setbacks, they were able in the late 17th and early 18th centuries to transform Powis from a border fortress into an aristocratic country house, and surround it with one of the very few extant examples of a British Baroque garden.
In 1784 Henrietta Herbert married Edward Clive, eldest son of Clive of India, a match which replenished the much-depleted Herbert family fortune. In the early 20th century, George Herbert, 4th Earl of Powis redeveloped the castle with the assistance of the architect George Frederick Bodley. Herbert’s wife, Violet, undertook work of equal importance in the garden, seeking to turn it into "one of the most beautiful, if not the most beautiful, in England and Wales". On the 4th earl's death in 1952, his wife and his sons having predeceased him, the castle passed into the care of the National Trust.
The statue commemorates Sir Robert Clive, aka Clive of India (1725-1774), who was born nearby.
St Mary's street, leading to St Mary's Church, in Market Drayton Shropshire.
It is believed that there was a wooden Anglo-Saxon church here, before being replaced by this Norman church in around 1150.
It was much altered in the 14th century, and a huge renovation took place in the late 1800s.
Robert Clive (Clive of India) was a pupil at the grammar school here in the 1730s. And famously climbed the church tower, and sat on one of the carved gargoyles that can still be seen today.
The Dolls house, is a very interesting looking town house?
Pentax K-70
Sigma 10-20mm f3.5 EX DC HSM
Two of these historic cannon flank the entrance to Powis Castle proper. Viewed large, the tiger barrel end can be clearly seen.
This is their ( somewhat controversial ) story...
From 1798 to 1803, between spells as Lord Lieutenant of Shropshire and Colonel of the Shropshire Militia, Clive was Governor of Madras. 1799 saw the second, and successful, siege of Seringapatam (Srirangapatna), the fortress of Tipu Sultan, Muslim ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore and Ally of Napoleon. The storming of the city resulted in the death of Tipu and the complete defeat of his forces. Among the huge quantities of trophies captured were 927 of Tipu’s cannon, almost 400 cast in bronze, and over 200 manufactured at his royal foundry. The disposal of this wealth of ordnance was the privilege of the East India Company, and two fine examples were given to Clive, who brought them home to England and passed them to Kynaston Powell’s volunteers. They are now at Clive Of India's ancestral home, Powis Castle.
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.