What is recorded here

Steps to the East Tower, Powis Castle is a castle, fort or tower in Powys, Wales. Perhaps the stones remember every footprint that climbed them toward a room no longer visible. Maybe the tower watched rain move across Powys while people forgot the name of the hand that built the steps. Imagine a keeper appearing at the top with a lamp, waiting for the last visitor to leave the threshold empty.

A named place photographed at this map point in Powys.

Built by the Myddelton family in the 17th century, Powis Castle, including the Steps to the East Tower, is important as a prime example of late medieval and early modern Welsh architecture and as the ancestral seat of the Earls of Ducie.