Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Boundary Wall and Gates to Roman Catholic Cathedral
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Offa, Wrexham, designated on 31 January 1994.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.04753, -2.99840
- Cadw reference
- 1802
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
Forms the boundary of the church yard with Regent Street to the north of the cathedral, the gates aligned with the main west door.
History
Probably designed as part of the original plans for the church site, and therefore probably to designs of E. W. Pugin in 1857.
Exterior
Coursed and squared rubble wall, with steep raking copings, and gate piers with gabletted copings, to which cast iron lamp standards are attached by iron brackets.
Reason for designation
A rare survivor of Victorian gothic street furniture, forming an important element in the cathedral site.
Group value with Roman Catholic Cathedral.
Nearby in the register
- Roman Catholic Cathedral of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 2 Grosvenor RoadDomesticunder 1 mi
- Presbytery at Catholic Cathedral Church of St MaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Nos.1,3 & 5, with Nos. 56, 58 & 60 Regent Street, King Street (W side)Commercialunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.