Full Report for Listed Buildings
The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.
Summary Description
Reference Number
17454
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
18/10/1996
Date of Amendment
18/10/1996
Name of Property
Rossett War Memorial
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Rossett
Town
Locality
Rossett
Easting
336525
Northing
357166
Street Side
NW
Location
Located in the graveyard of Christ Church, Rossett, adjacent to its front wall to Chester Road as it turns a corner towards Marford and crosses the River Alyn.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Constructed after World War I as a memorial to those who died from the surrounding area. Panels for the fallen of World War II added subsequently.
Exterior
Stone, late Gothic Revival, war memorial. Set on a plinth of three stone steps in octagonal plan a square stone base with deeply chamfered corners. The chamfers have shallow blind tracery panels with a tracery pattern of three ogee arches, one above the other, appropriate to the Trevalyn estate houses which are a feature of the locality. The main panels are reserved for eight copper panels bearing the names of the fallen, two panels being placed on each side. The base is surmounted by a merlon-crenellated string course which gives way to inclined stone work to the shaft of the memorial. The shaft is carved to represent the top of a Gothic spire, of octagonal section, supported on the four chamfered sides by thin angle-stepped buttresses, and surmounted by a cross.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included for group value with Christ Church and as a good example of a War Memorial.
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