Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Medieval Font 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
- 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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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 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.