The Powells of Nanteos

Highly readable book tracing the story of the Nanteos Estate near Aberystwyth, Wales from 1589 till 1954. The book discusses the history of the estate and the eighteenth-century Grade I-listed mansion house, Plas Nanteos, and of the fabled Nanteos Cup – a medieval drinking bowl which was claimed to be the Holy Grail. However, Morgan’s main focus in this volume is on the colorful stories of the Jones and Powell gentry families who lived at Nanteos. Special attention is paid to aesthete George Powell (1842–82), who Morgan describes as ‘the most interesting of his class in Wales’.