The two eastern towers, the square gatehouse between them built by Gilbert de Clare, who took over the castle in the 1270s or 12
The two eastern towers, the square gatehouse between them built by Gilbert de Clare, who took over the castle in the 1270s or 1280s. Castell Coch 19th century rebuild of a 13th Century castle outside Cardiff. Built in the 1870s, for the 3rd Marquess of Bute to a design by William Burge. It was built upon the remains of a 13th century castle built in two stages. The castle was probably founded by a Welsh lord in c1240-65 and had a round tower keep at the SW corner of a tiny D-shaped courtyard with a hall on the south side, all built of rough rubble sandstone from which the building took the name Castell Coch, or "Red Castle." It stands upon a platform commanding the gorge of the Taff and was protected towards the higher ground by a deep dry moat from the bottom of which the walls rise with a very broadly battered base. The keep contained vaulted rooms, and probably had a fourth storey and a conical roof like it has now. The walls are over thick above the square battered base from which it rises with pyramidal spurs.
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