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29-665: The current building was constructed between 1738 and 1757 for the Powell family, with the Shrewsbury architect Edward Haycock Sr. designing the stable block in the 1830s, and William Ritson Coultart designing the east wing and rear offices in 1841. The family occupied the house for some 200 years up until the last of the Powells, Margaret Powell, who died in 1951. At its peak the Nanteos estate comprised some 31,000 acres in 1800, covering most of what

58-531: A church associated with Low Church Evangelicalism . The church has two local army regiment memorials. The vicar is appointed by St John's College, Oxford , which has held the church's patronage since 1622. The church is within the Newgate Street Conservation Area . The original ( probably pre-Norman ) church on the site was dedicated to St Edmund the King and Martyr . In 1137 it was given to

87-812: A consistency of style throughout the project which results in the attractive appearance of Aberaeron today. A newspaper obituary states Haycock also "obtained first prizes for plans for the Birmingham and New Orleans Infirmaries " but these are not mentioned by Colvin. Shropshire Staffordshire Breconshire Cardiganshire Carmarthenshire Ceredigion Glamorgan Merioneth Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Shropshire Herefordshire Northamptonshire Caernarfonshire Carmarthenshire Cardiganshire Ceredigion Glamorgan Montgomeryshire Monmouthshire Neath Port Talbot Radnorshire St Sepulchre-without-Newgate Holy Sepulchre London , formerly and in some official uses Saint Sepulchre-without-Newgate ,

116-633: A friend of the Shrewsbury architect John Carline and also of Dr Robert Waring Darwin , the father of the naturalist Charles Darwin . He died on 20 December 1870 at his home, The Priory, Shrewsbury, aged 80 and was buried in St Chad's churchyard. "Haycock Way", linking Shrewsbury's 20th century inner ring road to the Column roundabout at Abbey Foregate, is named after the family. Haycock professionally trained in London under Sir Jeffrey Wyattville , exhibiting at

145-534: A major centre for architectural innovation in the later 18th and first half of the 19th century. This group gained many major architectural commissions in Shropshire and over much of Wales, despite competition from major London architects. Edward Haycock Snr specialised as a Gothic Revival architect. His father had used the Ionic order very effectively on the ill-fated Shrewsbury Shirehall and Edward Haycock continued with

174-711: A posting-house and an excellent hotel have been established". The Town Hall (1833–35), which later became the Cardiganshire County Hall, a typical building in Haycock's style, soon followed. The building of the planned town continued until the 1850s with a house in Portland Place being dated 1855. The posting house mentioned by Lewis could be the Castle and the hotel could be the Harbourmaster Hotel. Haycock achieved

203-599: A wealthy heiress, Mary Frederick, and started to build the present house soon afterwards. He was MP in turn for Cardigan Boroughs and Cardiganshire and died in a London street. The property then descended in the family to the Reverend William Powell in 1752, who completed the building work. His son Thomas inherited and was High Sheriff in 1785; Thomas's son William Edward was High Sheriff in 1810 and MP for Cardiganshire between 1816 and his death in 1854. The property passed to his son William Thomas Rowland Powell , who

232-523: Is a Grade I listed building . The gardens and park are designated Grade II* on the Cadw/ICOMOS Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales . 52°23′18″N 4°01′45″W  /  52.3882°N 4.0291°W  / 52.3882; -4.0291 Edward Haycock Sr. Edward Haycock Sr. (29 July 1790 – 20 December 1870) was an English architect renowned for his work in

261-635: Is the largest Anglican parish church in the City of London . It stands on the north side of Holborn Viaduct across a crossroads from the Old Bailey , and its parish takes in Smithfield Market . During medieval times, the site lay outside ("without") the city wall , west of the Newgate . It has London's musicians' chapel in which a book of remembrance sits and an October/November requiem takes place – unusual for

290-586: Is today Aberystwyth, and was the major employer of the county. The name derives from the Welsh for "brook" ( nant ) and " nightingale " ( eos ). The house was once the home of the Nanteos Cup , a medieval mazer drinking bowl that has been attributed with a supernatural ability to heal those who drink from it; it was traditionally believed to be fashioned from a piece of the True Cross . A 1905 pamphlet declared it to be

319-408: The City of London Rifles (the 6th Battalion London Regiment ). The church has been designated a Grade I listed building (the highest grade) since 1950. The north aisle is dominated by a splendid organ built by Renatus Harris in 1670; the organ case is its sole mention in the architectural listing, adding a date, 1677. The swell was added by John Byfield in c.  1730 . The organ

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348-646: The Holy Grail . The earliest recorded occupant of the estate was Colonel John Jones, a Royalist during the English Civil War and High Sheriff of Cardiganshire for 1665. He had no sons and so the estate was inherited in 1666 by his daughter Anne, who had married a Dutch mining engineer, Cornelius Le Brun, who in turn became High Sheriff in 1676. Their only daughter Averina duly inherited, having married William Powell (1658–1738) of Llechwedd Dyrus, and passed it on in 1738 to their eldest son, Thomas . Thomas had married

377-752: The Priory of St Bartholomew . During the Crusades of that century the church was re-dedicated to Saint Edmund and the Holy Sepulchre, venerating the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem . Knights passed by on the way to the Holy Lands. This name became contracted , and in the 21st century reference to the saint-king has been overwhelmingly dropped. The very early lessening of the first dedication helped to reserve that name for

406-589: The Royal Academy between 1808 and 1810. He then rejoined his father in the family building firm, working as builder and architect until about 1845, when he became a full-time architect. Work for the Gwynne family of Monachty led to the planning of Aberaeron . He was appointed County Surveyor of Shropshire from 1834 to 1866. Haycock was part of a group of architects, including Thomas Farnolls Pritchard , Joseph Bromfield and John Carline , who established Shrewsbury as

435-463: The 18th century, the interior of the church is a wide, roomy space with a coffered ceiling installed in 1834 with plasterwork of three years later. The church underwent considerable re-facing and alterations in 1878. During the Second World War the 18th-century watch-house, built in the churchyard to deter grave-robbers, was bomb-struck but later rebuilt. The vicarage was fully renovated in

464-515: The Musicians' Book of Remembrance are maintained by the Friends of the Musicians' Chapel. A Service of Thanksgiving for all those in the book is held at the church each year as well as a requiem close to All Souls' Day . Many concerts and memorial events for musicians have been held in the church. In 2017 the vicar ceased parish funds financing the requiem and allowing of most free rehearsing time. A protest

493-585: The West Midlands and central and southern Wales during the late Georgian and early Victorian periods. Haycock was the grandson of William Haycock (1725–1802) of Shrewsbury and the son of John Hiram Haycock (1759–1830), who were architects and building contractors. He joined the family business after 1810 and assumed control following his father's death in 1830. Around 1845, he transitioned from building contracting to focus solely on architecture, with his son Edward Haycock Junior (1829/30-1882) later joining

522-405: The early 2000s. During Mary I 's persecutions , in 1555, the incumbent vicar John Rogers was burned at the stake as a heretic . The bells are referred to in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons as the "bells of Old Bailey ". In 1605, London merchant tailor John Dowe paid the parish £ 50 (equivalent to £14,000 in 2023) to buy a handbell and to mark the execution of prisoners at

551-462: The first years of the court this was as the condemned felon was led to Tyburn . By the north aisle is the Musicians' Chapel. As St Stephen's chapel it hosted votive masses to the 12th-century monastic saint Stephen Harding prior to the English Reformation and during the reign of Mary I of England . The ashes of conductor Sir Henry Wood , founder of The Proms , who learnt to play

580-546: The hour is drawing near That you before the Almighty must appear; Examine well yourselves, in time repent, That you may not to eternal flames be sent. And when St Sepulchre's bell to-morrow tolls, The Lord above have mercy on your souls. Past twelve o'clock! Given proximity to Newgate Prison and the Old Bailey , built on the site of the prison, certain of the bells in its tower, aside from marking time, celebrating weddings and communion, were rung to announce executions. In

609-479: The nearby gallows at Newgate . This execution bell is displayed in a glass case in the nave . Between the 17th and 19th centuries, the clerk was responsible for ringing it outside the condemned man's cell in Newgate Prison the night before his execution, and announcing the following "wholesome advice": All you that in the condemned hold do lie, Prepare you, for to-morrow you shall die; Watch all, and pray,

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638-479: The organ at the church as a boy, were interred here in the 1940s. It was rededicated to musicians by Dr. W.R. Matthews, Dean of St Paul's , on 2 January 1955 in the presence of many distinguished musicians including an orchestra conducted by Sir Malcolm Sargent and the BBC Singers . Its four windows commemorate Sir Henry Wood, John Ireland , Dame Nellie Melba and Walter Carroll The chapel's appearance and

667-401: The practice and continuing it until about 1880. On 13 February 1827, Haycock married Mary Hatton at St Sepulchre-without-Newgate , London and had three sons and four daughters. In addition to his architectural career, Haycock was active in the political life of Shrewsbury as a Conservative . He served on the council for thirty-four years, became an alderman, and was mayor in 1842. He was

696-473: The property in 1951 to Mrs. Elizabeth Mirylees, a distant relative of her husband, who moved in 1956. She sold it only 11 years later to Geoff and Rose Bliss, who lived there until 1983, opening the building to the public. Since then there have been several owners but the mansion now operates as a hotel . In 2004 it was purchased by the Saxoncourt Group which completed a major refurbishment in 2012. Nanteos

725-526: The small church to the east of St Paul's Cathedral dedicated to St Edmund, King and Martyr . The church is today the largest parish church in the city. It was completely rebuilt in the 15th century but was gutted by the Great Fire of London in 1666, which left the outer walls, the tower and the porch standing. It was rebuilt 1667–1679 by Joshua Marshall , the King's Master Mason, and appears to be remodelled to Marshall's own design. Lightly modified in

754-552: The use of Ionic orders on his major projects as at Millichope Park, Glynllifon and Clytha Park. His churches tend to be more pedestrian, using a simplified Gothic , often with crocketed pinnacles on the towers. A departure from this is St Catherine's, Doddington, (a suburb of Whitchurch , Shropshire) 1836–7, which has an impressive Grecian revival facade. Aberaeron was founded by Rev. Alban Thomas Jones Gwynne following an Act of Parliament in 1807, but it appears that town did not start to be laid out until about 1830. Edward Haycock

783-491: Was also MP for Cardiganshire. In 1878 the property was inherited by his son George , an antiquary and collector. The property was inherited by his nephew William Beauclerk Powell and then by his son Edward Athelstan Lewis Powell, whose son and heir William Edward George Pryse Wynne Powell was killed in the First World War. The property passed to Edward Athelstan Lewis Powell's widow Margaret, who died in 1930. She bequeathed

812-401: Was employed by Colonel A J Gwynne for supervising the building of houses and their layout in a grid plan around squares, including the principal one, Alban Square . In 1833, Samuel Lewis's “Topographical Dictionary of Wales” records “Upwards of thirty new leases have been granted, pursuant to which several houses have been already built, and others are already in progress; a general post-office,

841-529: Was held and many prominent musicians including John Rutter sought continued benevolence from the wider congregation and church patron. Attempts to mediate failed. The south aisle of the church holds the regimental chapel of the Royal Fusiliers (City of London Regiment) (merged to form the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers ), to whom its gardens are a memorial. The west end of the north aisle has memorials for

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