Eastern & Western Walls of Rose Garden at St Fagans Castle

The eastern wall of the garden is also the eastern boundary wall of the castle grounds. Wall of stone with embattled parapet. This is continous with the boundary wall to the south which incorporates the main entrance to St. Fagans Castle and then extends as far south as the entrance to the stables. To the north, the wall extends as far as the northern tip of the rose garden which is by the entrance to the grounds opposite the Plymouth Arms. At the north end of the rose garden the wall attains a thickness of about two feet and turns at right angles for a short distance towards the west. In the southern part of the wall there is a pair of very fine wrought iron gates with overthrow, apparently of Italian workmanship and dating from about 1900 and bearing a coronet and the motto 'Avise la fine'. Before the gates on the west side there is a flight of eleven shallow steps bounded by stone balustrades.