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9781786832856

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Architecture reflects not only a nation’s history, but also how its people lived, worked, prayed and fought over the centuries. Since the publication of John B. Hilling’s The Historic Architecture of Wales in 1976, there has been no other attempt at addressing the architecture of Wales as a whole, and this revised publication meets a long-felt need for a general survey of architecture in Wales. It covers two thousand years of architectural history, reflecting the nation’s life from Roman times to the present century – less a revision of the original than a complete re-writing, taking into account recent research and recent buildings. The book is illustrated with 268 colour and black-and-white photographs, drawings, plans and maps.

General Editor’s Preface
‘Letting the Light In’ Gillian Clarke
List of Illustrations and
Acknowledgements
Author’s Preface and Acknowledgements
Land, History and Architecture Roman Occupation and Celtic Survival
Early Castles of the Middle Ages
Later Castles of the Middle Ages
Romanesque Churches of the Middle Ages
Gothic Churches of the Middle Ages
Other Secular Buildings and Towns of the Middle Ages
Tudor and Renaissance Architecture
Vernacular Houses
Neoclassicism, Gothick and the Picturesque
Non-domestic Architecture in the Eighteenth Century
Industry and Transport, 1800–1815
Country Houses and Planned Towns, 1800–1915
Religion and Education, 1800–1915
Civic and Communal, 1800–1915
Arts and Crafts to Early Modernism, 1900–1939
Late Modernism, 1940–1985
Recent Developments, 1986–2017, Simon Unwin
Appendix 1: Glossary of Welsh Architectural and Building Terms
Appendix 2: List of Award-winning Architects
Select Bibliography
Index of Architects, Engineers and Designers
General Index

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University of Wales Press

Date de parution

15 août 2018

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9781786832856

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

320 Mo

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General Editor
– Mary W renn
Royal Society of Architects in Wales –
Cymdeithas Frenhinol Penseiri yng Nghymru
Series Editors
– Bella Kerr
– David Thomas
– Jonathan Vining
Advisory Panel
– Irena Bauman, Director, Bauman Lyons Architects, Leeds
– Richar d Parnaby, formerly Professor of Architecture, UWE Bristol
and University of Wales Trinity Saint David
– Alan Powers, author and architectural historian
– Ian Pritchard, Secretary General, Architects Council of Europe
(ACE) Published in cooperation with
– D amian Walford Davies, Head of School, Cardiff School of The Royal Society of Architects in Wales –
English, Communication and Philosophy, Cardiff University Cymdeithas Frenhinol Penseiri yng NghymruThe Architecture of Wales
from the frst to the twenty-frst century
John B. Hilling
with a contribution from Simon Unwin© John B. Hilling, 2018
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any material form
(including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether
or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the
written permission of the copyright owner. Applications for the copyright owner’s
writtsion to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to
the University of Wales Press, 10 Columbus Walk, Brigantine Place, Cardiff CF10 4UP.
www.uwp.co.uk
British Library CIP Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library
ISBN 978-1-78683-284-9
eISBN 978-1-78683-285-6
The right of John B. Hilling to be identifed as author of this work has been asserted in
accordance with sections 77 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

Design: www.theundercard.co.uk
Printed in Wales by Gomer Press
With thanks to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments
of Wales for supporting the publication of this book. The Royal Commission on the
Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales is the investigation body and national
archive for the historic environment of Wales. It has the lead role in ensuring that
Wales’s archaeological, built and maritime heritage is authoritatively recorded and
seeks to promote the understanding and appreciation of this heritage nationally
and internationally.Contents
General Editor’s Preface vii
11 Non-domestic Architecture
‘L etting the Light In’ in the Eighteenth Century 143
Gillian Clarke ix
12 Industry and Transport,
List of Illustrations and 1800–1815 157
Acknowledgements xi
13 Country Houses and
Author’s Preface and Planned Towns, 1800–1915 173
Acknowledgements xvi
14 Religion and Education,
1800–1915 189
1 Land, History and Architecture 1
15 Civic and Communal,
2 Roman Occupation and 1800–1915 207
Celtic Survival 11
16 Arts and Crafts to Early
3 Early Castles of the Modernism, 1900–1939 221
Middle Ages 25
17 Late Modernism,
4 Later Castles of the 1940–1985 235
Middle Ages 41
18 Recent Developments,
5 Romanesque Churches 1986–2017
of the Middle Ages 53Simon Unwin 251
6 Gothic Churches of
the Middle Ages 67 Appendix 1:
Glossary of Welsh Architectural 265
7 Other Secular Buildings
and Building Terms
and Towns of the Middle Ages 83
Appendix 2: 8 Tudor and Renaissance
List of Award-winning Architects 267 Architecture 95
Select Bibliography 273
9 Vernacular Houses 113
Index of Architects,
10 Neoclas sicism, Gothick
Artists and Engineers 279
and the Picturesque 129
Index of Places 293 this page has been left intentionally blank General Editor’s Preface
Given the conventional image of Wales as a land of song Of course, the truth is that Wales has a rich built heritage,
and poetry, architecture and the visual arts can be easily from the medieval to the modern. Its architectural character
overlooked, a neglected poor relation to the country’s is very different from that of the other nations of the British
seductive musical and literary traditions. Relatively little has Isles, and it is this very distinctiveness that deserves to
been published about the architectural heritage of our nation, be celebrated. The Royal Society of Architects in Wales is
despite the fact that buildings and places have been created delighted to present, with the University of Wales Press, a
in Wales that bear comparison with contemporaneous series of books exploring the architecture of Wales, adding
examples elsewhere, produced by architects engaged in new chapters to the evolving story of the buildings, places
the same wider cultural currents and discourse. There are and spaces of our ‘damp, demanding and obsessively
1many reasons for this: Wales has so often been judged as interesting country’.
being too small, too homely, or simply not distinctive or
fashionable enough to attract the sustained attention of
architectural critics and historians. Add to this a lack of
consistent patronage and a deeply ingrained Nonconformist Mary Wrenn, Director RSAW
tradition that discourages any form of showing off, and it is The Royal Society of Architects in Wales (RSAW)
not surprising perhaps that we lack a more complete record represents and supports Chartered Members of the Royal
of the architectural achievements of past generations. Institute of British Architects (RIBA) in Wales
1 Jan Morris, Wales: Epic Views of a Small Country.this page has been left intentionally blank A cwtsh of a country,Letting the Light In
houses hunkered to the hillGillian Clarke
in heartless, one-street towns.
The et cetera of terraces
like paragraphs of longhand
Well building hath three Conditions: in an old language.
Commodity, Firmness and Delight.
In our town by the sea, we children (Sir Henry Wotton, 1624)
were construction workers,
clearing glades in the woods for dens,
tree-houses, bird-hides, lookouts.
We’d ease into hollow trees
and whisper in the mushroomy dark.
Till suddenly called by the distant drum of a train
we’d race breathless to the viaduct,
to take the measure of it, to shout,
to touch the train’s thunder in the stones,
sound and curve diminishing arch by arch
in lapsing loops and ellipses.
It prepared us for the lofty gravity
of museum, warehouse, galleried arcades,
Victorian covered market, old library
whispering its multilingual stories,
tea and talk under trees in the open air
at the Hayes Island Snack Bar.
In the re-imagined nation, let’s dream
a waterfront where once the coal ships docked,
leafy squares where sunlight turns, touching
stalls, strollers, street musicians, a woman
at a pavement table, steam from a white cup,
coins in the fddler’s opened case.
Let’s make fne buildings, go sandalfoot
Reproduced courtesy of Gillian Clarke into spaces of shadows and refections,
and Carcanet Press Ltd. This poem was see what stone, steel, slate and glass,
commissioned by RSAW in 2003 to can make out of air and water and sunlight.
mark the tenth anniversary of the RSAW Let’s open the city to the light,
Annual Conference. to commodity, frmness, delight.this page has been left intentionally blank List of Illustrations
1–71
1 The Mountains and Rivers of Wales. 25 Pembroke Castle, Great Tower. 49 Llandaf Cathedral, Cardiff.
2 Welsh Administrative Boundaries. 26 Distribution of Round Keep-towers. 50 Ewenni Priory, Glamorgan.
3 Distribution of Roman Forts and Towns. 27 Tomen y Rhodwydd (Castell yr Adwy), 51 Ewenni Priory.
Denbighshire.4 Caerleon Legionary Fort. 52 St David’s Cathedral.
28 Distribution of masonry castles of the 5 Caerleon Amphitheatre. 53 St David’al.
Welsh Princes.
6 Caerwent Roman town. 54 Ynys Seiriol Church, Anglesey.
29 Castell y Bere, Meirionnydd.
7 Caerwent, Roman Town walls. 55 Penmon Priory, Anglesey.
30 Castell y Bere.
8 Roman villa, Llantwit Major. 56 St D avid’s Church, Llan-ddew,
31 Castell Dolwyddelan, Caernarfonshire. Breconshire.9 Reconstructed Iron Age farmstead.
32 Castell Dolbadarn, Caernarfonshire. 57 Y strad Ffur (Strata Florida) Abbey, 10 Dinas Powys hill fort, Glamorgan.
33a Castell Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire. Ceredigion.
11 T re’r Ceiri hill fort, aerial view,
33b Castell Dryslwyn, Carmarthenshire. 58 Ystrad Ffur (Strata Florida) Abbey. Caernarfonshire.
34 Castell Dinefwr, Carmarthenshire. 59 Llanthony Abbey, Monmouthshire. 12 Tre’r Ceiri hill fort, remains of stone
roundhouse. 35 Caerphilly Castle, Glamorgan. 60 Llandaf Cathedral, Cardiff.
13a Pant y Saer, Anglesey. 36 Caerphilly Castle. 61 Tintern Abbey, Monmouthshire.
13b Din Lligwyy. 37 Distribution of E dwardian and Lordship 62 Margam Abbey, Glamorgan.
Castles in the late thirteenth-century. 14 , Anglesey. 63 St P adarn’s Church, Llanbadarn Fawr,
38 Conwy Castle. Ceredigion. 15 Early Christian Cross, Carew.
39 Caernarfon Castle. 64 Distribution of V aulted and Waggon roofs. 16 Ynys Seiriol Celtic monastery, Anglesey.
40 65 Llangar old Church, near Corwen. 17 Maen Du Well, Brecon.
41 Harlech Castle. 66 St David’s Cathedral, Pembrokeshire. 18 Chepstow Castle, Great Tower.
42 Beaumaris Castle. 67 St David’al.19 Cardiff Castle, Motte and Keep.
43 68 St Giles’s Church, Wrexham.20 Cardiff Castle.
44 Swansea Castle. 69 St W inefride’s Chapel, Holywell, 21 Wiston Castle, Pembrokeshire,
Denbighshire. Motte and Keep. 45 Raglan Castle, Monmouthshire.
70 St Beuno’s Church, Clynnog Fawr, 22 Chepstow Castle. 46 Distribution of Monastic Houses.
Caernarfonshire.
23 Cilgerran Castle, Pembrokeshire. 47 Haverfordwest Priory, Pembrokeshire.
71 St Beuno’s Church, Clynnog Fawr.
24 Pembroke Castle. 48 Chepstow Church, Monmouthshire. List of Illustrations
72–212
72 St John’s Church, Cardiff. 96 Plas Mawr Gatehouse, Conwy. 119 Cilewent long-house, from Radnorshire