[94677] Plas Brondanw : Ionic Column

Plas Brondanw, Garreg, Gwynedd.

The Gardens.

Ionic Column.

Grade ll listed.

 

An Ionic stone column, approximately 4m high, with surmounting lead statue - possibly St Ronan. The column is set in the centre of a slightly raised rectangular lily pond.

 

Plas Brondanw is a C17 gentry house with probable earlier origins, altered partly-raised and extended late C18. Long in the possession of the Williams family. The house was inherited in 1908 by the renowned architect and conservationist Sir Clough Williams-Ellis (1883-1978), and henceforth became his home. Together with his wife Amabel he laid out the important gardens and, over a number of decades erected or remodelled numerous buildings, follies and features around the Brondanw estate and the village of Garreg. The house was gutted by fire in 1951 and was subsequently restored, and in part redesigned, by its owner, the restoration being complete by December 1953.

 

The gardens were laid out to his designs in various stages between his inheritance of the estate in 1908 and his death in 1978. He created here one of Wales' most impressive gardens distinctive for its interlinked terraces, compartments and axial vistas that are aligned on the surrounding mountains of Moel Hebog, Moelwyn, Cnicht and Snowdon.

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