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Fonmon Castle
In the community of Rhoose.
In the historic county of Glamorgan (Modern authority
of Vale of Glamorgan, preserved county of South Glamorgan).
Built by the St. John family in the early C13 and has changed hands only once. Although most of the present castle dates from the post-medieval period, the rectangular keep was built c.1200 and is still the core of the castle. One of Fonmon's surviving towers may also be medieval in date. In later centuries the castle was enlarged by adding wings to the medieval keep.
This site has been described as a;
Masonry Castle.
The confidence
that this site is a medieval fortification or palace is Certain.
Masonry ruins/remnants remains.
This site is a
Grade 1 listed
building protected by law*.
The Ordnance Survey Map Grid
Reference is ST04746809
National Monuments Record number; 300300
County Sites and Monuments Record number; 00502s, 00503s
- Web site links
- Books
- Pettifer, Adrian, 2000, Welsh Castles, A Guide by Counties (Boydell Press) p96
Reid, Alan, 1998, Castles of Wales (John Jones Publishing) p84
Salter, Mike, 1991, The Castles of Gwent, Glamorgan and Gower (Malvern) p51
Davis, Paul R., 1983, Castles of Glamorgan (Alun Books) p39
King, D.J.C., 1983, Castellarium Anglicanum (London: Kraus) Vol1 p163-4
Fry, P.S., 1980, Castles of the British Isles (David and Charles) p355
Moore, P., 1978, 2edn [1edn 1976], Fonmon Castle South Glamorgan: a Residence Occupied since the Thirteenth Century (Glamorgan Archives Joint Committee, Cardiff)
Renn, D.F., 1973 (2edn), Norman Castles of Britain (John Baker)
Hague, D.B., 1971, in Pugh, T.B. (ed), Glamorgan County History Vol3 The Middle Ages (Cardiff) p440
Clark, G.T., 1884, Medieval military architecture in England (Wyman and Sons) Vol2 p49-50 [reprint of 1861 article]
Homfray, Jeston, 1828, The Castles of the Lordship of Glamorgan (Cardiff) p41 and plate
- Journal Articles
- Spurgeon, Jack, 1987, 'The Castles of Glamorgan' Chateau Gaillard Vol13 p209n, 222
Hogg, A.H.A. and King, D.J.C., 1967, 'Masonry castles in Wales and the Marches: a list' Archaeologia Cambrensis Vol116 p71-132
Oswald, 1949, Country Life Vol105, p606-9, 670-3, 734-7
Jones, 1882, Cardiff Naturalists' Society Vol14 p44-9
Clark, 1861, Archaeologia Cambrensis [ser3] Vol7 p8-9
- Antiquarian (Histories and accounts from late medieval and early modern writers)
- Toulmin-Smith, Lucy (ed), 1910, The itinerary of John Leland in or about the years 1535-1543 (Bell and Sons; London) Vol3 p24
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*The listed building
may no be the actual medieval building, but a building on the site
of, or incorporating fragments of, the described site.
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