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
20242
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Statue by the lily pond in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327139
Northing
337909
Street Side
Location
The statue stands on the edge of the circular lily pond at the lower end of the gardens.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
One of four bronze statues by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, the caster's name ponly partially legible as A Pach... Tranda(?) of London, placed in the E gardens of the Castle.
Exterior
The statue of cast bronze portrays a naked nymph quite properly rejecting the idea of plunging into the pool.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a work of sculpture of the aesthetic movement of the late C19-early C20, one of four embellishing the formal gardens carried out for Lady Howard de Walden at Chirk Castle.
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