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Temple Druid is a grade II listed John Nash house in west Wales, Pembrokeshire. Temple Druid, named after a series of standing stones and cromlech, is a house located about 3/4 of a mile east of the village of Maenclochog. The house was designed and built for Henry Bulkeley by John Nash, architect to King George IV, in c1795. The site was originally called Bwlch-y-Clawdd (Gap in the Hedge) but was renamed when the house was built. The house was designed as a hunting lodge, with stables and coach houses. The estate also included a farmhouse and three cottages which continue to be used. Bulkeley lived in the house from 1806 until his death in 1821. Unfortunately the house was shortly after dismantled and the particulars of the house sold. The sales notice, described in the Cambrian Journal in 1821 states the following" An "excellent mansion house" on three floors, it contained six apartments for servants in the attic, eight bedrooms with three dressing rooms and a nursery on the first floor, and a "handsome drawing room", dining parlour, breakfast parlour, offices and "principal apartments fitted up with statuary marble chimney pieces" on the ground floor. The staircase is described as geometrical and made of stone, leading up to an elegant gallery." The current house represents work done in c1830 when significant changes were made to the fabric of the building. The house suffered the loss of a wing and the stone staircase and gallery. However the front part of Nash's original square design remains intact. ==Standing Stones== There are many records〔Collectanea Archaeologica: Communications Made to the British Archaeological Association, Volume 2 , 1871〕 attesting to the existence of a significant cromlech at Temple Druid. Apparently the cromlech had a head stone 13 ft in diameter, raised 4 ft above the ground on three supports. The time of destruction was roughly c1800〔RCAM Pembs. no. 634; and MS V, no. 37〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Temple Druid」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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