Sham Castle

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Sham Castle

Sham Castle is a Folly in the village of Bathampton above the town Bath in the English county of Somerset . English Heritage has it as a historical building II *. Grade listed. It is a backdrop wall with a pointed arch in the middle, flanked by two three-story round towers. There are further sections of the wall with two-story towers with a square floor plan at each end.

Sham Castle was probably designed by architect Sanderon Miller in 1755 and built in 1762 by master builder Richard James for Ralph Allen "to improve the view" from his townhouse in Bath.

Sham Castle is illuminated at night tonight.

Generic name

There are other so-called "Sham Castles" in Hagley Hall , Clent Grove and Castle Hill (Filleigh) .

More follies

The rear view of Sham Castle shows that the "castle" should only be viewed from the front.

The Sham Bridge is located in Ralph Allen's nearby Prior Park Landscape Garden . This structure is also a backdrop at the end of Serpentine Lake that looks like a bridge. Like Sham Castle, it dates back to the mid-18th century.

Another folly nearby is Midford Castle . Sham Castle is one of three follies over Bath; the others are Beckford's Tower and Brown's Folly .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sham Castle . Images of England. Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  2. ↑ Sham Castle . Historic England. English Heritage. Retrieved December 15, 2016.
  3. ^ Robert Dunning: Somerset Castles . Somerset Books, Tiverton 1995. ISBN 0-86183-278-7 . P. 77.
  4. ↑ Shane Scott: The Hidden Places of Somerset . Travel Publishing, Aldermaston 1995. ISBN 1-902007-01-8 . Pp. 16-17.
  5. ^ Prior Park . Parks and Gardens Data Services Ltd. July 27, 2007. Retrieved December 15, 2016.

Coordinates: 51 ° 22 ′ 57 ″  N , 2 ° 20 ′ 15 ″  W.