Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
13146
Building Number
 
Grade
II*  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
22/02/1963  
Date of Amendment
16/09/1999  
Name of Property
St Quintin's Castle (Llanblethian Castle)  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Vale of Glamorgan  
Community
Cowbridge with Llanblethian  
Town
 
Locality
Llanblethian  
Easting
298910  
Northing
174177  
Street Side
W  
Location
About 450m NE of Llanblethian church on spur of land above loop in River Thaw.  

Description


Broad Class
Defence  
Period
 

History
Although known as St Quintin's Castle, after the first Lords of Llanblethian, the St Quintin family were dispossessed in 1233 by Richard Siward, upon whose outlawry in 1245, the castle passed to Richard de Clare, Lord of Glamorgan. Only the ruinous keep of C12 can be associated with the St Quintin family. The gatehouse belongs with the newly fortified enclosure probably begun circa 1312 by Gilbert III de Clare, killed at Bannockburn in 1314. There are stylistic links with Caerphilly castle. From C15 onwards castle was used as a prison.  

Exterior
Gatehouse (set forward from curtain wall) in local grey lias stone with dressings of buff Sutton stone. Central Gothic archway (provision for portcullis) flanked by towers with splayed corners. Cruciform arrow loops at ground floor level, most of dressed stone from windows and upper loops lost. Smaller arch in rear face of gatehouse. The remains of the curtain wall enclose an irregular quadrilateral about 52m by 50m; foundations of towers at angles N and S of gatehouse, and turret to NW. In centre of enclosure, remains of C12 keep.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Listed for as substantial remains of medieval castle. Scheduled Ancient Monument Cadw No Gm 94.  

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