Aberglasney : the theory, history and archaeology of a post-medieval landscape

Author

Briggs, C. Stephen

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Post-medieval archaeology. 1999, Vol. 33, 242-284, 14 ill., maps, plans

ISSN

0079-4236

Abstract (en)

Printed and documentary sources, archaeological excavation, dendrochronology and geophysical survey were employed to investigate the history of Aberglasney, a small country house near Llandeilo, Carmarthenshire. Traditions about its garden layout, parapet walkway, a gatehouse and a yew "tunnel" are examined. Around 1600, Bishop Anthony Rudd probably built a "cwrt" enclosure aligned north-south. The gatehouse belonged to this or a later house. In 1770 or later, the Dyer family rebuilt the house, probably redesigned and rewalled the entire estate layout, when an earlier farm building was converted into the parapet walkway and stock pens, in an area later known as the "cloistered court". In Victorian times this feature, originally a farmyard, became a pleasure garden, part of a typical Georgian-Victorian complex including a kitchen garden, glasshouses, orchards and fishpond. A yew grove was established, most likely ca.1805, when the Philipps family began planting in Picturesque style. Abandoned ca.1950, house and garden became dilapidated. The site is now the object of a radical development programme, involving inter alia the stabilisation of all buildings fabric, and imposing 16th/17th c. style formal gardens over the 18th/19th c. kitchen garden and orchard.

Subject (en)

• Aberglasney!!Dyfed (GBR)
• Architecture
• Country houses and châteaux
• 1600-2000
• Great Britain
• Excavations
• Archaeology
• Restoration
• Gardens
• Farms
• Garden structures

Subject (fr)

• Aberglasney!!Dyfed (GBR)
• Architecture
• Château
• 1600-2000
• Grande-Bretagne
• Fouilles
• Archéologie
• Restauration
• Jardin
• Ferme
• Fabrique

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier20010101-00147133

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