Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Rossett War Memorial
Rossett, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Rossett, Wrexham, designated on 18 October 1996.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 18 October 1996
- Locality
- Rossett
- Community
- Rossett
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.10789, -2.94963
- Cadw reference
- 17454
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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5 historical maps cover this location, the earliest the 1608 map "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1637 · Particular description of Wales. Cambria seu Wallia (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 108 Flint (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
Located in the graveyard of Christ Church, Rossett, adjacent to its front wall to Chester Road as it turns a corner towards Marford and crosses the River Alyn.
History
Constructed after World War I as a memorial to those who died from the surrounding area. Panels for the fallen of World War II added subsequently.
Exterior
Stone, late Gothic Revival, war memorial. Set on a plinth of three stone steps in octagonal plan a square stone base with deeply chamfered corners. The chamfers have shallow blind tracery panels with a tracery pattern of three ogee arches, one above the other, appropriate to the Trevalyn estate houses which are a feature of the locality. The main panels are reserved for eight copper panels bearing the names of the fallen, two panels being placed on each side. The base is surmounted by a merlon-crenellated string course which gives way to inclined stone work to the shaft of the memorial. The shaft is carved to represent the top of a Gothic spire, of octagonal section, supported on the four chamfered sides by thin angle-stepped buttresses, and surmounted by a cross.
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Christ Church and as a good example of a War Memorial.
Nearby in the register
- Christ ChurchReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Rossett MillIndustrialunder 1 mi
- Trevalyn Hall (including former lodge)Domesticunder 1 mi
- The Courtyard (formerly known as Trevalyn Hall Service Wing)Domesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.