Penrice Castle
📍 Swansea, Wales
About
Penrice Castle is a 13th-century castle near Penrice, Swansea on the Gower Peninsula, Wales. Nearby is a neo-classical mansion house built in the 1770s. The mansion is a Grade I listed building, and the surrounding gardens and park is also listed at Grade I on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales.
A Norman castle on the Gower Peninsula near Oxwich, built in the 12th century by the de Penrice family. The castle was extended with a strong curtain wall and round tower in the 13th century. It was abandoned when the adjacent Penrice House was built in the 18th century. The ruins stand in the grounds of the estate, amid rolling parkland with views towards Oxwich Bay and Three Cliffs Bay.
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