Ruperra Castle

Ruperra Castle
Castell Rhiw'r Perrai
Lower Machen, Caerphilly, Wales
Ruperra Castle, in current ruinous condition
Coordinates51°34′13″N 3°07′38″W / 51.5703°N 3.1271°W / 51.5703; -3.1271
TypeManor House, mock Castle
Site information
Websitewww.ruperracastle.wales
Site history
Built1626 (1626)
Built bySir Thomas Morgan
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameRuperra Castle[1]
Designated8 May 1964; 60 years ago (1964-05-08)[1]
Reference no.14069[1]
Official nameRuperra Castle[2]
Designated2 September 1976; 48 years ago (1976-09-02)[2]
Reference no.GM379[2]
Official nameRuperra Castle[3]
Designated1 February 2022; 2 years ago (2022-02-01)[3]
Reference no.PGW(Gm)17(CAE)[3]
ListingGrade II[3]
Not to be confused with Ruperra Motte.

Ruperra Castle or Rhiwperra Castle (Welsh: Castell Rhiw'r Perrai) is a Grade II* Listed building and Scheduled Ancient Monument, situated in Lower Machen in the county borough of Caerphilly, Wales. Built in 1626, the castle is in a ruinous condition as at 2023. Its grounds are listed on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

Morgan ownership

Built in 1626 by Sir Thomas Morgan,[4][5][6][7][8] Steward to the Earl of Pembroke, it was one of the first of the mock castles to be built in Wales. King Charles I spent two nights at Ruperra Castle in 1645[8] shortly after the Battle of Naseby. Resultantly the royal coat of arms was added to the decoration on the South Porch, and the present public footpath from Rudry to the Castle is still known as "King's Drive".[5][6][7]

It was bought as his home by wealthy John Morgan "the merchant" for 12,400 pounds. He was unmarried and it was consolidated on his death in 1715 into the Tredegar estates of the Morgan family.

It was destroyed by fire in 1785,[8] and rebuilt, resultantly becoming home, especially in the 19th century, to the heir of the estate.[5][6][7] Godfrey Charles Morgan, 2nd Baron, 1st Viscount Tredegar, who was a captain in the 17th Lancers during the Charge of the Light Brigade at the Battle of Balaklava in the Crimean War, was born at Ruperra.[6][7] It was during the early Victorian age that he undertook a lot of development, adding three new lodges as well as in 1826 a now listed iron bridge, allowing a carriage way through Coed Craig Ruperra and across the Rhymney River to Lower Machen Church, where the family and their servants attended Sunday services.[6][7]

After the death of army officer turned politician Colonel Frederick Courtenay Morgan in 1909, his son Courtenay Morgan, 1st Viscount Tredegar, embarked on a programme of refurbishment. Minor adjustments were made to the main house, but his major improvement was the building of a new stable block to replace the one destroyed by fire in 1895, a new reservoir and pump house in the deer park, and a new power house fitted with duplicate steam-driven generators, dynamos and boilers. The 1840s brew house, laundry and dairy range were converted to accommodate the estate's staff.[6][7]

Courtenay's son, Evan Morgan, 2nd Viscount Tredegar, poet and noted eccentric with links to Aldous Huxley, Lord Alfred Douglas, Augustus John, Nancy Cunard and H. G. Wells, then owned Ruperra.[6][7] He grew up there and, apparently, refused to sell it to William Randolph Hearst, whose lover, the actress Marion Davies, wanted a home in South Wales. Later, after Davies saw photographs of St Donat's Castle, Vale of Glamorgan in Country Life magazine, that property was bought and revitalised by Hearst in 1925 as a gift to Davies.[9][10][11]

But by 1935, the Morgan fortune was in decline. Despite having invested heavily in the property, the Morgan seat and main home remained Tredegar House, with Ruperra used as a weekend hunting lodge.[7] The entire 3,000 acres (1,200 ha) estate was put up for sale, with the contents either moved to Tredegar House or sold in a three-day auction. Unstaffed and effectively abandoned, at the start of World War II, like many other large estate houses, it was taken over by the British Army, under whose control in 1941 it was destroyed by another fire.[8] Post-war, it was left to deteriorate. In 1956, John Morgan, 6th Baron Tredegar, sold the Castle along with its surrounding agricultural land to Eagle Star Insurance Company for around £35,000, during his liquidation of the Morgan estates.[12][a]

Later ownership

Ashraf Barakat bought the castle in 1998 and tried to revive the sport of polo in Wales.[14] After failing in a planning permission application to construct nine residential flats within the building, following the discovery of roosting Greater and Lesser horseshoe bats on the premises, he applied to demolish it to build housing; planning permission was refused. In September 2010, Barakat put the castle up for sale, at a price of £1.5M for 14 acres (with an optional further 16 acres),[8][15] and it was sold in about July 2014.[16][b] It remains privately owned and its condition continues to deteriorate. A charity, the Ruperra Castle Preservation Trust, has been established which is working towards the building's restoration.[17] In 2022 Cadw designated the castle gardens and park Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[18] In November 2023, inspectors found the building was structurally unsound and in imminent danger of collapse.[19]

Footnotes

  1. ^ £35,000 in 1956 equates to approximately £1,103,000 in 2023, according to calculations based on the Consumer Price Index measure of inflation.[13]
  2. ^ £1,500,000 in 2010 equates to approximately £2,429,000 in 2023, according to calculations based on the Consumer Price Index measure of inflation.[13]

See also

References

  • Clark, Gregory (2023). "The Annual RPI and Average Earnings for Britain, 1209 to Present (New Series)". MeasuringWorth. Archived from the original on 1 April 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2023.
  • Philip Jenkins. The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52194-7.
  • Pat Moseley. Ruperra Castle War & Flames 1939–46. Tower Printing. ASIN B001CBUX7G.
  • Pat Moseley, Christopher Jones-Jenkins. Serving Under Ruperra. Tower Printing. ISBN 0-9561464-1-4.
  • RCAHMW, (1981), Glamorgan: The Greater Houses HMSO, pp262–8, pls and ills. ISBN 0117007544

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Cadw. "Ruperra Castle (Grade II*) (14069)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Cadw. "Twm-Barlwm Mound and Bailey Castle (GM379)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  3. ^ a b c d Cadw. "Ruperra Castle (PGW(Gm)26(CDF))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
  4. ^ Lise E. Hull. Britain's Medieval Castles. Praeger Publishers. ISBN 0-275-98414-1.
  5. ^ a b c Philip Jenkins. The Making of a Ruling Class: The Glamorgan Gentry 1640–1790. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0-521-52194-7.
  6. ^ a b c d e f g Pat Moseley. Ruperra Castle War & Flames 1939–46. Tower Printing. ASIN B001CBUX7G.
  7. ^ a b c d e f g h Pat Moseley, Christopher Jones-Jenkins. Serving Under Ruperra. Tower Printing. ISBN 0-9561464-1-4.
  8. ^ a b c d e Ruined castle goes on market for £1.5 million (From South Wales Argus)
  9. ^ Bevan, Nathan (3 August 2008). "Lydia Hearst is queen of the castle". Wales On Sunday. Retrieved 3 August 2008.
  10. ^ Conrad Black & David Nassaw. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst – The Rise and Fall of the Real Citizen Kane. Gibson Square Books. ISBN 1-903933-27-7.
  11. ^ Davies, Marion (1975). The Times We Had. Bobbs-Merrill. ISBN 0-672-52112-1.
  12. ^ "History of the Castle". Ruperra Castle - Castell Rhiw'r Perrai. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  13. ^ a b Clark 2023.
  14. ^ BBC News | Wales | Polo set for Welsh revival
  15. ^ JeffreyRoss: Property details
  16. ^ Ruperra Castle blog article on 9 Jan 2015
  17. ^ Bevan, Nathan (26 October 2020). "The million pound 17th century castle that's been left to rot in a Welsh woodland". Wales Online. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  18. ^ Cadw. "Ruperra Castle (PGW(Gm)17(CAE))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  19. ^ Thomas, Nicholas; Aitken, Catriona. "Ruperra Castle: Risk to future of historic landmark". BBC News. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
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