Abergavenny Castle

Abergaveny Castle
Abergaveny, Monmouthshire, Wales
Interior of the surviving curtain wall and four-storey tower, looking west from inside the castle grounds
Abergaveny Castle is located in Wales
Abergaveny Castle
Abergaveny Castle
Coordinates51°49′12″N 3°01′04″W / 51.82002°N 3.017647°W / 51.82002; -3.017647
TypeCastle
Site information
ConditionRuins
Site history
Battles/warsGlyndŵr Rising, 1404
Listed Building – Grade I
Designated1952

Abergavenny Castle (Welsh: Castell y Fenni) is a ruined castle in the market town of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, Wales, established by the Norman lord Hamelin de Balun c. 1087. It was the site of a massacre of Welsh noblemen in 1175, and was attacked during the early 15th-century Glyndŵr Rising. William Camden, the 16th-century antiquary, said that the castle "has been oftner stain'd with the infamy of treachery, than any other castle in Wales."[1]

It has been a Grade I listed building since 1952.

  1. ^ Elisabeth Whittle (1992). "Abergavenny Castle". Castle Wales. Retrieved 18 July 2013.