20208

 

II  

Designated  

29/07/1998  

29/07/1998  

Trevor Mausoleum in churchyard of the Church of St Mary  

 

Wrexham  

Chirk  

Wrexham  

Chirk  

329238  

337654  

E  

The mausoleum is located in the burial ground extension, 90m E of the chancel of the church.  

Religious, Ritual and Funerary  

 

The small building was erected in c1905 to mark the loss of the child of Baron Trevor of Brynkinallt.  

The elaborate neo-Norman building is of upper coal measures rock-faced sandstone and ashlar work, with a stone slab roof between raised gables. A single cell structure with dressed clasping buttresses at all four corners, and an arched entrance in the W gable. This has a round arch of fine and crisply carved chevron and guilloche orders, springing from variously carved twin nook shafts. A boarded oak door with elaborate iron hinges has a small barred viewing window. The side walls have an alternating billet mid-wall string and a tight chevron carved corble table supporting the stone gutter. On each side a small raised dormer with a similar chevron arch rising into a steep gable, and containing glazing with tinted puntils. On the door a dedication plaque to Arthur William, 2nd Baron Trevor, d.1923 and Rosamund his wife, d.1942, and child d.1904.  

The interior is vaulted with stone ribs, those at the E descending either side of a niche on the E wall. It contains a lifesize white marble figure of a winged angel standing on a small hemisphere, tenderly carrying in her arms the girl child Mary Rosamund who died in 1904 aged 5.  

Included as a fine and elaborate example of neo-Norman design, employed at a late date.