Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Wrexham Churchyard Ornamental Wrought Iron Gates and Screen
Offa, Wrexham, Wales
A scheduled monument in Offa, Wrexham, recorded as Gate (Post Medieval/Modern).
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Gate
- Period
- Post Medieval/Modern
- Community
- Offa
- Unitary authority
- Wrexham
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 53.04463, -2.99299
- SAM number
- DE158
- Cadw record number
- 309
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 1588 map "Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0" (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich).
Historical maps covering this location
- 1588 · Ortelius, Abraham: Theatro De La Tierra Universal. 0 (Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich)
- 1608 · (13) Cambriae Typus. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Hills) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1898 · 121 Wrexham (Outline) (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
- 1901 · Sheet 9 and 10. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a generals description of the scheduled ancient monument.
The monument consists of a pair of wrought iron gates with elaborate scrollwork, made in 1720 by the Davies Brothers of Bersham. The central double gates, single side gates, and the panels flanking them each have overthrows, rising successively to the centre of the gates. There are rusticated stone piers crowned by moulded urns at each end of the gates. Beyond those in quadrants are further sections of ironwork, with overthrows, spanning Temple Row.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of entrance architecture. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits. The structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information concerning chronology and building techniques. Gates may be part of a larger cluster of monuments and their importance can further enhanced by their group value.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- St. Giles' Churchyard GatesReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- 4 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 3 Church StreetDomesticunder 1 mi
- 6 Temple RowDomesticunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.