2015

SH6071 : Ceiling above Grand Staircase

taken 9 years ago, near to Llandygái, Gwynedd, Wales

Ceiling above Grand Staircase
Ceiling above Grand Staircase
Built between 1822 and 1837 for George Hay Dawkins-Pennant who had inherited the estate, including the previous much smaller castle on the site, on the death of his second cousin, Richard Pennant, whose fortune had been made from Jamaican sugar plantations and local slate quarries. It was designed by Thomas Hopper in mock Norman form, with solid walls and rounded windows and doorways.

In 1951 it was passed to the Treasury in lieu of death duties, which in turn passed it to the National Trust.

Grade I listed - see LinkExternal link

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SH6071, 242 images   (more nearby 🔍)
Photographer
Richard Hoare   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 5 September, 2015   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 6 September, 2015
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 6025 7187 [10m precision]
WGS84: 53:13.5262N 4:5.6903W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! SH 6025 7187
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Southwest (about 225 degrees)
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