Kinnersley Castle

Kinnersley Castle in Herefordshire, England, is one of the many marches castles along the Welsh Borders.

The Castle of Kinnersley, on the A4112 3 km (1.9 mi) east of Eardisley, was originally a stone structure, thought to have been built during the reign of Henry I of England (1100-1135 C.E.). The Elizabethan building that now occupies the site has obliterated all but a few traces of the medieval castle. Although it looks predominantly Elizabethan on the outside, it has many features of different periods. It was bought by Roger Vaughan in 1588.

It was 'renovated' in the 16th century by the Vaughn family and houses a fine example of an intricate plasterwork ceiling in the solar, thought to be one of the oldest in Herefordshire. There are many green men and serpent hounds to be found on this ceiling, a lot of the detail is picked out in gold. On the stone overmantel of the fireplace, carved into the stone is a boy's head with a serpent around its neck.

Roger's son, John Vaughan inherited the castle, but then sold it to Francis Smallman Kinnersley Castle is the registered address of The Mereon Legacy CIC, a Community Interest Company, set up to hold the intellectual property rights related to the Mereon Matrix, and to "further explore, describe, understand and disseminate" knowledge related to this dynamic, three-dimensıonal geometric model which is composed of two many faced polyhedra.

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Kinnersley Castle ranks #6,421 of 8,764 worldwide in the atlas's castle fame ranking, and #350 of the 356 mapped in England. Founded c. 1118, it is older than 86% of the atlas's dated landmarks — one of 593 atlas entries founded in the 12th century. 9 more atlas landmarks stand within 25 km. The nearest day-trip guide is Cardiff, 75 km away. See how England compares in the castle statistics.

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