What is recorded here

St Fagans Castle is an Elizabethan mansion built in the late 16th century on the ruins of a 13th-century fortress, wrapped in a surviving D-shaped medieval wall. The house served as a convalescent hospital during World War I, with forty beds crammed into the banqueting hall, before becoming the heart of the National Museum of History. Its courtyard holds a lead water cistern cast with family arms and the Latin word deveniendo, suggesting ascent through time rather than mere storage.

The National Monuments Record of Wales records St Fagans Castle as Outbuilding from the Post Medieval period. The saved point comes from the official national record. Inclusion does not by itself mean that the public may enter the place.

St Fagans Castle was built by the de la Pole family in the 15th century and later held by the Williams-Wynn family. It is important as a historic country house associated with Welsh gentry and as the location of the National Slate Museum.

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