File:Chirk Castle, NT, Chirk, Clywd, Wales (48602213346).jpg
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| Description | Built in 1398 as a border fortress to keep the troublesome Welsh in line, Chirk Castle has been rebuilt several times over the centuries to turn it into a luxurious and comfortable country house. The medieval towers were largely hollowed-out to provide expansive rooms which were then decorated in the neo-classical style with Robert Adam-style plaster ceilings, Mortlake tapestries and the finest furniture. Today the castle retains the stolid outlook of a fortress, but the walls which were originally 15ft thick are now pierced by the delicate tracery of Elizabethan and later windows. The setting, on top of a granite outcrop on part of Offa's Dyke, and 828ft elevation give commanding views across the Cheshire plain to distant Beeston Castle to the East and south across Shropshire to the Wreakin, Long Mynd and beyond. |
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| Author | kitmasterbloke |
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