Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Medieval Font in the E Garden
Chirk, Wrexham, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Listed building, Grade II
- Broad class
- Religious, Ritual and Funerary
- Date of designation
- 29 July 1998
- Locality
- Chirk Castle
- Town
- Wrexham
- Community
- Chirk
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates
- 52.93489, -3.08591
- Cadw reference
- 20245
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 font is placed at the topmost point of the rock garden, behind the Hawk House, in the E gardens of Chirk Castle.
History
The font is of the C14, and is said to have been brought to Chirk Castle from Valle Crucis Abbey in the late C19, and set up in the rock garden.
Exterior
The font is of stone, octagonal, tapering down to a short circular stem and ovolo basal ring. It is mounted on circular plinth of 2 steps.
Reason for designation
Included as an item of archaeological interest, and an embellishment to the rock gardens created at Chirk Castle on the slope of the enhanced mound on the E axis of the castle.
Nearby in the register
- Statue of HerculesGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Hawk House in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Ha-ha at the E end of the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Sundial in front of the Hawk House 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.