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
1772
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
16/06/1980  
Date of Amendment
31/01/1994  
Name of Property
2 Chest Tombs to west of Church of St Giles  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Offa  
Town
 
Locality
 
Easting
333516  
Northing
350127  
Street Side
 
Location
West of the tower of Saint Giles' Church, adjacent to the sundial.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
Pair of chest tombs on common base. Commemoration dates between 1726 and 1806.  

Exterior
Stone. Tombs each have a stepped base with scrolls to angles of bulbous side panels with moulded cornice below upper slab. One has inscribed upper slab with name of John Bradford, mercer, (d. 1726), and a brass plate naming John Bradford, mercer, (d. 1789), Samuel Roberts, mercer, d. 1806, and John Eddowes, draper, (d. 1764). The other tomb has no inscription, although there are traces of a brass plate long-since removed. Both were formerly surrounded by cast iron railings.  

Interior
 

Reason for designation
Good example of late C18 funerary mounuments. Group value.  

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