Cardiff Castle
Nov. 27th, 2010 10:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rmToday was a very cold day in which to go see Cardiff Castle, since it involves a good amount of being outdoors. But! We still had a lovely time, and I got some good shots both inside and outside, and we even stumbled upon a museum of the Welsh soldier in the basement.
Tomorrow we go down to London, and I'm off on Monday (big sad face, since Patty will remain here for a bit more).
But for now, pictures!
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Cardiff Castle. For context on what you're about to see Cardiff Castle both has history as a medieval castle and as a Victorian mansion. The mansion stuff was done by William Burges and is obsessive in its attention to detail (and has weird backstory that's also obsessive).
The keep at Cardiff Castle.
More with the castle. I took a lot of pics of this thing that I'm pretty damn pleased with.
Moat! Icicles on a bridge over the moat!
The Arab Room, which was sometimes used as a sitting room or a guest bedroom, depending on needs.
A detail in the Arab Room, including a parrot sculpture and a painted deer.
Shooting up into the ceiling of the Arab Room. There are lots more shots of this on my Flickr.
Details from the Banquet Hall.
More details from the Banquet Hall.
Details from the smaller, "private" dining room.
A detail of three angels above the fireplace in the private dining room. It says, under them, in Greek, "Entertaining angels unawares."
Chandelier from the private dining room.
Here we are in the only room in the castle that is unchanged from the 1700s, leaving it far more simple than the rest of the apartments in the castle and attached clock tower (which we didn't get into today). This type of ornateness, which does't even seem relevant in light of the rest of the design of the place, is what I'm more used to. Here the room with the warmer tones you see in the mirror is the once again very ornate library.
Monkey detail entering library.
Details of a staircase off the library which we could not access.
Detail above library fireplace showing tablets of knowledge in ancient languages including ancient Greek, heiroglyphics, and Hebrew.
This sign in the regimental museum cracked us up, because really? No shit? Military personnel experience weather?
Hand embroidered postcards sent by family members to service men in WWI. They took a mere two days to reach the front.
Here, a Christmas card from a soldier sent home. He used a piece of the lining of his greatcoat to create it.
It's traditional for a goat, led by the Goat Major, to lead the regiment on ceremonial occasions. The goat wore red until The Welch and the South Wales Borderers combined in 1969 to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. The goat now wears green.
This is Dewi III, one of the goats of historical significance.
Have some more Dewi. Dewi is awesome.
Tomorrow we go down to London, and I'm off on Monday (big sad face, since Patty will remain here for a bit more).
But for now, pictures!
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Cardiff Castle. For context on what you're about to see Cardiff Castle both has history as a medieval castle and as a Victorian mansion. The mansion stuff was done by William Burges and is obsessive in its attention to detail (and has weird backstory that's also obsessive).
The keep at Cardiff Castle.
More with the castle. I took a lot of pics of this thing that I'm pretty damn pleased with.
Moat! Icicles on a bridge over the moat!
The Arab Room, which was sometimes used as a sitting room or a guest bedroom, depending on needs.
A detail in the Arab Room, including a parrot sculpture and a painted deer.
Shooting up into the ceiling of the Arab Room. There are lots more shots of this on my Flickr.
Details from the Banquet Hall.
More details from the Banquet Hall.
Details from the smaller, "private" dining room.
A detail of three angels above the fireplace in the private dining room. It says, under them, in Greek, "Entertaining angels unawares."
Chandelier from the private dining room.
Here we are in the only room in the castle that is unchanged from the 1700s, leaving it far more simple than the rest of the apartments in the castle and attached clock tower (which we didn't get into today). This type of ornateness, which does't even seem relevant in light of the rest of the design of the place, is what I'm more used to. Here the room with the warmer tones you see in the mirror is the once again very ornate library.
Monkey detail entering library.
Details of a staircase off the library which we could not access.
Detail above library fireplace showing tablets of knowledge in ancient languages including ancient Greek, heiroglyphics, and Hebrew.
This sign in the regimental museum cracked us up, because really? No shit? Military personnel experience weather?
Hand embroidered postcards sent by family members to service men in WWI. They took a mere two days to reach the front.
Here, a Christmas card from a soldier sent home. He used a piece of the lining of his greatcoat to create it.
It's traditional for a goat, led by the Goat Major, to lead the regiment on ceremonial occasions. The goat wore red until The Welch and the South Wales Borderers combined in 1969 to form the Royal Regiment of Wales. The goat now wears green.
This is Dewi III, one of the goats of historical significance.
Have some more Dewi. Dewi is awesome.
