Qualla: Bronwydd Castle https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Wed, 08 Jul 2026 02:40:13 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Bronwydd Castle https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle Bronwydd Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle/ Sir Thomas Lloyd wanted a castle. Not a real one, with arrow-slits and a working garrison, but a fairy-tale castle suitable for the man who insisted on calling himself the Marcher Lord of Cemais. In the 1850s, on a wooded bluff above the Afon Cynllo halfway between Cardigan and Lampeter, he tore down most of an 18th-century house and replaced it with one of the most ambitious Welsh Gothic Revival mansions of its century: round towers and square towers, a baronial entrance hall, painted mottoes above every door, mock half-timbered stables modelled on the streets of Chester, and a roofline of patterned tiles that Sir Thomas claimed echoed the castles of the Rhine. A hundred and seventy years later, almost none of it remains.

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/bronwydd-castle-wp/gckb-bronwydd-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Bronwydd Castle: The Marcher Lord of Cemais https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle/ The Lloyd family had owned land in the Teifi valley for centuries. Their previous seat at Cilrhiwe was a comfortable Georgian house, but it was not grand enough for Sir Thomas Lloyd, 1st Baronet, who had inherited not just the estate but the title of Lord Marcher of Cemais, an ol...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/bronwydd-castle-wp/gckb-bronwydd-castle-the-cost-of-splendour.mp3 0:06 3 full Bronwydd Castle: The Sale https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle/ Sir Marteine and Lady Lloyd lived away from Bronwydd for much of the post-war period, though they celebrated their golden wedding there in 1928 with what was, by all accounts, considerable style. Sir Marteine died in 1933. Lady Lloyd attempted to let the house, but tenants were h...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/bronwydd-castle-wp/gckb-bronwydd-castle-the-sale.mp3 0:06 4 full Bronwydd Castle: The Stripping https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle/ After the war the house was stripped. Architectural salvage in the 1940s and 1950s emptied many similar Welsh houses; carved fireplaces, panelling, stained glass, and stone all went to dealers and to other buildings. Substantial parts of Bronwydd still had a roof into the 1980s, ...

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]]> Sun, 24 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/k/b/bronwydd-castle-wp/gckb-bronwydd-castle-the-stripping.mp3 0:06 5 full Bronwydd Castle: What a Ruin Means https://qualla.com/bronwydd-castle/ Bronwydd was an act of self-invention, an elaborate stage set for a baronet who wanted his ancient feudal dignity made visible in stone. It lasted as a working home for about eighty years. The ruin has none of the romance of a medieval castle that fell to siege or to time alone; ...

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