Mansion House, Cardiff subsequently being used by Cardiff Council for events, functions, civil ceremonies and weddings. It was also the base for the council's protocol team. Mansion House, Cardiff The Mansion House (), located on Richmond Road, is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of Cardiff. Architects Habershon & Fawckner designed the Mansion House and it was built in 1896 for James Howell, owner of Howells department store. It was then known then as 'The Grove'. James Howell was a Cardiff businessman who opened his first shop in 1865. In 1890 he made arrangements to build a property on land leased from
Mansion of the Doomed Mansion of the Doomed Mansion of the Doomed (UK theatrical title: The Terror of Dr. Chaney; also known as "Massacre Mansion", "Eyes of Dr. Chaney" and "House of Blood") is a 1976 American horror film directed by Michael Pataki and starring Richard Basehart and Gloria Grahame. While not prosecuted for obscenity, the film was seized and confiscated in the UK under Section 3 of the Obscene Publications Act 1959 during the video nasty panic. An insane surgeon finds himself cutting up people for their eyeballs in the hope of performing transplants on his daughter who lost her own in a