Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Bronze Statue on a plinth in the E garden
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
A Grade II listed building in Chirk Castle, Wrexham, Chirk, designated on 29 July 1998.
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk Castle
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93453, -3.08913
- Cadw reference
- 20239
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)
- 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)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Location
The figure stands at the S end of the top cross walk in the eastern gardens.
History
The figure is one of four in the gardens undertaken by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, sculptor, 1860-1924.
Exterior
The figure is cast in bronze, and depicts a partly draped female with long hair clutching a bunch of lilies to her bosom, whilst trampling a snake underfoot. It stands on a bronze domical plinth.
Reason for designation
Included as a work of sculpture of the aesthetic movement of the late C19 - early C20, one of four embellishing the formal gardens carried out for Lady Howard de Walden at Chirk Castle.
Nearby in the register
- Sundial in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- DovecoteAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- Statue in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Statue in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.