Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Lodge to Cemetary
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
- Domestic
- Date of designation
- 31 January 1994
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 53.03873, -3.00494
- Cadw reference
- 1808
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 1795 map "To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most humbly inscribed by his obedient humble servant" (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1795 · To Sir Watkin Williams-Wynn Bart ... the map of the six counties of North Wales is most… (Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of Wales)
- 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
Situated immediately inside the gates of the cemetery on Ruabon Road.
History
The cemetery was established 1874-6 and its layout was by Yeaman Strachan, with William Turner as architect of the lodge and chapels.
Exterior
Rock faced random rubble with ashlar dressings and slate roof with terracotta cresting and finials. 2 storeyed, L-plan with gabled porch in angle with left hand wing. Shallow segmentally arched doorway and pierced bargeboards to porch gable. 3-light wood mullioned and transomed window with small upper panes on each floor in the gable of this wing, with half-hipped roof over. Similar windows in north-facing gable, and in rear. Axial and end wall stacks.
Reason for designation
Group value with cemetery chapels, and gates, gatepiers and railings to cemetery.
Nearby in the register
- Gates to CemetaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Gate Piers to CemetaryReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Cemetey ChapelsReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Mortuary at Wrexham CemeteryNo class recordedunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.