Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Gates to 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
- 52.93546, -3.08884
- Cadw reference
- 20270
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford LibrariesLlyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru – The National Library of WalesDavid Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries
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 gates are at the N end of the main cross walk at the head of the E gardens of the Castle, set within hedging.
History
The E gardens of the castle were started by the construction of a cross terrace in 1761. The gates entering upon the terrace from the N are possibly C18, or C19 copies of similar work.
Exterior
The gates are of wrought iron. Two pairs of gates of decorative scrollwork, the scrolls rising above a horizontal bar, and hung on 3 wrought iron cage piers rising higher than the gates and topped with further light scrolls. To either side, low screen rails with arrow-headed dog rails, bracketed to the main piers with further scrolls.
Reason for designation
Included as a striking and flamboyantly designed set of gates forming an appropriate entrance to the eastern gardens of Chirk Castle, which contain a number of listed items.
Nearby in the register
- Chirk CastleDomesticunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Statue in the E GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Walls to the Privy GardenGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.