Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Statue in the E Garden
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
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
- 52.93462, -3.08847
- Cadw reference
- 20241
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1608 "(13) Cambriae Typus." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Location
The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk Castle.
History
One of four bronze statues by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, the caster's name only partly legible as A Pach... Tranda(?) of London, placed in the E gardens of the Castle.
Exterior
One of a pair, a cast bronze figure, approximately two-thirds life size, of a slender naked nymph in an attitude of sad resignation, her eyes blindfolded, standing on a foliage encircled domical bronze 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
- Statue in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls to the Privy GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Bronze Statue on a plinth in the E gardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Sundial 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.