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- Castell Coch (Welsh pronunciation: [ˈkastɛɬ koːχ]; Welsh for Red Castle) is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais in South Wales.
- The interiors of the castle rooms argue for their decoration and luxury with the interiors of Cardiff Castle.
- Castell Coch is a castle in the SXIX reconstructed by William Burges, the architect who designed the nearby Cardiff Castle on an earlier one from the middle ages.
- To help protect Cardiff castle, a number of subsequent fortifications were constructed in the surrounding area, one of which included Castell Coch.
- Castell Coch is a 19th-century Gothic Revival castle built above the village of Tongwynlais.
- Despite the fact that "even more than Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch is not a case of restoration but of recreation" (Crook, The High Victorian Dream, 281)...
- MORE INFO: Castell Coch, Castle Hill, Tongwynlais, Cardiff, CF15 7JS Tel: 029 2081 0101 cadw@wales.gsi.gov.uk.
- Like Cardiff Castle, Castell Coch (literally ‘red castle’) was the brainchild of Victorian architect William Burges, working once again under the patronage of the...
- Castell Coch is situated in an ancient woodland and Special Area of Conservation (SAC) owned by CADW (a Welsh Government agency).