St Bride's Castle
The imposing mansion overlooking St Bride’s Bay was built in the early part of the 18th century by William Philipps who had married Albania Laugharne, the sister and heiress of John Laugharne.
The Laugharnes were a well-known local gentry family whose earlier members had included Major General Rowland Laugharne, the commander who had successfully upheld the Parliamentary cause in west Wales during the First Civil War. Fragments of the earlier manor house occupied by Rowland and his ancestors can still be found near the church. The new mansion built by William Phillips was known as St Bride’s Hill. In 1880 the fourth Baron Kensington bought the estate, but it was sold by the sixth Baron in 1920. The house became a hospital, though it has since been divided into holiday apartments
