Cardiff Castle Apartments Day Nursery Photos

Cardiff Castle Day Nursery (1879) in the Guest Tower is where the Bute children attended lessons. The most notable feature is a painted frieze depicting children's stories & authors by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges.

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Day Nursery where four Bute children attended their lessons in the Guest Tower at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Fireplace grate decorated with sculpted birds in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sitz bath & screen in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Painted stone chimneypiece with the figure of Fame & her herald holding two trumpets representing "great renown" or "ill fame" carved by sculptor, Thomas Nicholls in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Day Nursery (1879) where four Bute children attended their lessons in the Guest Tower at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Fireplace grate decorated with sculpted birds in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sitz bath & screen in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Painted stone chimneypiece with the figure of Fame & her herald holding two trumpets representing "great renown" or "ill fame" carved by sculptor, Thomas Nicholls in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Chimneypiece & part of processional tiled frieze depicting heroes & heroines from children's literature painted by Horatio Lonsdale to designs of William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Section of painted tile frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Genevieve & The Children in the Wood sections of painted tile frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sections of painted tile frieze of children's fairy tale stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Chimneypiece & part of processional tiled frieze (1879) depicting heroes & heroines from children's literature painted by Horatio Lonsdale to designs of William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Section of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Genevieve & The Children in the Wood sections of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sections of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's fairy tale stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Robinson Caruso & other fairy tale sections of painted tile frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sleeping Beauty section of painted tile frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Little Red Riding & Friar Fox sections of painted tile frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Friar Fox and other fairy tale characters on painted tile frieze painted by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Robinson Caruso & other fairy tale sections of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Sleeping Beauty section of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Little Red Riding & Friar Fox sections of painted tile frieze (1878) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Friar Fox and other fairy tale characters on painted tile frieze (1879) painted by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Hop-on-my Thumb plus Jack & the Beanstalk with Jack the Giant Killer sections of painted tiled frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Cinderella section of painted tiled frieze of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale& William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Invisible man outlined by tree branches holding hawk on painted tile work in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Lamp shade silhouette of cat playing fiddle in nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Hop-on-my Thumb plus Jack & the Beanstalk with Jack the Giant Killer sections of painted tiled frieze (1879) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale & William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Cinderella section of painted tiled frieze (1879) of children's stories by Horatio Lonsdale& William Burges in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Invisible man outlined by tree branches holding hawk on painted tile work in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Lamp shade silhouette of cat playing fiddle in nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Lamp shade silhouette of cow jumping over the moon in nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Portraits of children's authors: Defoe, Grimm & Perrault in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Portraits of children's authors: Aesop, Scheherazade & Chaucer in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Book shelf with spooled carving in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Lamp shade silhouette of cow jumping over the moon in nursery rhyme, Hey Diddle Diddle, in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Portraits of children's authors: Defoe, Grimm & Perrault in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Portraits of children's authors: Aesop, Scheherazade & Chaucer in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.Book shelf with spooled carving in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.
Photo of the four Bute children , Lady Margaret, Lord Dumfries, Lord Ninian & Lord Colum in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.


Photo of the four Bute children (c1888), Lady Margaret, Lord Dumfries, Lord Ninian & Lord Colum in Day Nursery at Cardiff Castle. Cardiff, Wales.



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