Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Royal Welch Fusiliers Memorial
Acton, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Bodhyfryd, Acton, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Commemorative
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Locality
- Bodhyfryd
- Community
- Acton
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04885, -2.99143
- Cadw reference
- 1746
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)
- 1883 · Watershed map England, Wales 3. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
At the junction of Bodhyfryd and Chester Road, sited so as to face down Chester Road.
History
War memorial, erected in 1924, originally at the junction of Regent Street and Grosvenor Road, and moved to its present site after the Second World War. By Sir W. Goscombe John, sculptor. Ashlar pedestal and flanking walls, with bronze figures.
Exterior
Central pedestal surmounted by figures in the C18 and C20 uniforms of the Royal Welch Fusiliers. Inscription commemorating the dead of the First World War on the pedestal, which is flanked by low quadrant walls which carry Second World War inscriptions, and have laurel-band cornice and raking copings. Walls terminate in stepped piers with segmental caps, and low relief emblems. The quadrant walls enclose a cobbled surface raised up steps.
Reason for designation
A good example of memorial sculpture, notable for its precise representation of Welch Fusilier Soldiers, in a fine monumental composition.
Nearby in the register
- 29 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 28 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 27 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 26 Chester StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.