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Llanarth Court

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Llanarth Court
"A monster Neo-classical house"
TypeHouse
LocationLlanarth, Monmouthshire
Coordinates51°47′22″N 2°53′58″W / 51.7894°N 2.8995°W / 51.7894; -2.8995
Built1771 and rebuilt 1849-51
ArchitectW. and E. Habershon (rebuilding)
Architectural style(s)Neo-classical
Governing bodyPriory Group
Listed Building – Grade II*
Official nameLlanarth Court
Designated6 May 1952
Reference no.1925
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGatehouse at Llanarth Court
Designated3 January 1995
Reference no.15661
Listed Building – Grade II
Official nameGates and Piers to former north drive to Llanarth Court
Designated15 March 2000
Reference no.22994
Official nameLlanarth Court
Designated1 February 2022
Reference no.PGW(Gt)13(Mon)
ListingGrade II
Location of Llanarth Court in Monmouthshire

Llanarth Court is a late-18th-century country house with substantial 19th-century alterations in Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales. The court was built for the Jones family of Treowen and was subsequently the home of Ivor Herbert, 1st Baron Treowen, whose family still owns much of the Llanarth estate, although not the court itself. The court is a Grade II* listed building and is now a private hospital. The gardens are included on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.

History

The first house recorded on the property goes back to the early medieval period and was called Hendre obaith, Home of the Old Faith.[a][2] It came into the possession of ancestors of the Jones family well before 1469.[2] In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, it was the home of Philip Jones, merchant and member of parliament for Monmouth Boroughs.[3] His family subsequently rebuilt the house as Llanarth Court in the seventeenth century.[2]

The current house was originally built around 1770[2] for John Jones.[4] It was remodelled 1849–51 by Edward Habershon and his brother, W. G. Habershon, in an Italianate style.[2] Lord Treowen, the ennobled descendant of the Joneses, died in 1933 and, his only son having predeceased him,[b] the court was inherited by his daughter, the Hon. Fflorens Roch, who gave it to the Roman Catholic Church in 1948.[2] The church passed the court to the Dominican Order which ran a school there, Blackfriars School, until 1967. The Benedictine Order then took over the building, operating a preparatory school for Belmont Abbey School.[6] The school closed in 1986 and the court was sold to AMI Healthcare for conversion into a private hospital.[2] The hospital is currently run by the Priory Group and caters for patients with mental illness or intellectual disabilities.[7] A fire at the court in late April 2020 saw no loss of life, but the destruction of a modern ward. The court itself was undamaged.[8][9]

Description

The gatehouse on the southwest drive

The architectural historian John Newman describes the court as a "monster Neo-classical house",[4] consisting of a three-storey, double pile block of thirteen bays. The entrance porch, reputedly modelled on the temple at Paestum,[4] has been removed. The Habershons' work included the rendering and much classical decoration.[2] The interior has been modernised and institutionalised and contains "little of either the later eighteenth or the mid-nineteenth centuries".[4] The Monmouthshire author and artist Fred Hando, recording a visit to the court in the 1960s, noted the presence of two pictures by Tiepolo, The Healing at the Pool of Siloam and The Woman taken in Adultery.[10] The latter is now in the collection of Amgueddfa Cymru – Museum Wales.[11] The court used to contain the original hall screen from Treowen, but, writing in 1999, Newman stated that the screen "is likely to be returned thither",[4] a view which echoed that of Hando, writing 30 years earlier; "The oak screen dated 1627 was transferred from Treowen where, in my opinion, it would be more happily housed".[12]

The gardens surrounding the court are a "well preserved early 19th century landscape park".[13] It is possible that the landscape gardeners Samuel Lapidge and John Claudius Loudon were involved in its design.[13] Developments after World War II significantly altered the landscape and many features have been lost, including the kitchen garden dating from the 19th century,[14] and the lake, which is now silted-up.[13] The gardens are listed at Grade II on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.[15] The Church of St Mary and St Michael, originally the private chapel for the court, stands in the grounds and has its own Grade II* Listing.[16] The gatehouse to the southwest of the court,[17] and the gates and gate piers to the north have their own Grade II listings.[18]

Footnotes

  1. ^ Joseph Bradney, in his multi-volume study A History of Monmouthshire from the Coming of the Normans into Wales down to the Present Time, translates Hendre-obaith as "the old home of hope". He goes on to record the descent of the Joneses of Llanarth Court back to Gwilym ap Jenkyn of Wern-duu who died in 1377.[1]
  2. ^ Lord Treowen's son, Elydir John Bernard Herbert, was killed shortly after fighting at the Third Battle of Gaza, in December 1917. His parents built a small hamlet, Tre Elydir, on their adjoining Llanover estate, in his memory.[5]

References

  1. ^ Bradney 1992a, p. 305.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Cadw. "Llanarth Court (Grade II*) (1925)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  3. ^ Members Constituencies Parliaments Surveys. "Jones, Philip (d.1603), of London and Llanarth, Mon". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  4. ^ a b c d e Newman 2000, pp. 264–5.
  5. ^ Jones, Dominic (11 November 2017). "The village built as a war memorial". South Wales Argus.
  6. ^ MCC 2013, p. 11.
  7. ^ "Priory Llanarth Court". The Priory Group. 2020. Retrieved 3 June 2020.
  8. ^ "60 firefighters sent to mental health unit blaze". BBC News. 28 April 2020.
  9. ^ O'Neill, Ryan (28 April 2020). "Firefighters tackle large fire at hospital". walesonline. Wales Online.
  10. ^ Hando 1964, p. 68.
  11. ^ "Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery". National Museum Wales. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  12. ^ Hando 1964, p. 67.
  13. ^ a b c "Llanarth Court". Parks & Gardens UK. 27 July 2007. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  14. ^ "Llanarth Court, Garden, Llanarth (265944)". Coflein. RCAHMW. 21 August 2006. Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  15. ^ Cadw. "Llanarth Court (PGW(Gt)13(MON))". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 February 2023.
  16. ^ Cadw. "Roman Catholic Church of St Mary and St Michael (Grade II*) (1971)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 5 June 2020.
  17. ^ Cadw. "Gatehouse at Llanarth Court (Grade II) (15661)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2020.
  18. ^ Cadw. "Gates and Piers to former north drive to Llanarth Court (Grade II) (22994)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 6 June 2020.

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