Sham Castle
Battlemented Gothick folly screen with turrets, built as an eyecatcher on a hilltop above the city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Sham Castle, on the hill above Bath, is about the people behind a building that is only a front: Ralph Allen, the postmaster turned stone magnate who paid for it, and Richard Jones, the clerk of works who ran his building jobs. It touches Allen's quarries, the mansion at Prior Park, and a gentleman architect whose name was put forward for the design. Listen at the back of the wall first, then walk round to the front.
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