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
20246
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327091
Northing
337984
Street Side
Location
The sundial stands on the lawn below, and on the axis of, the Hawk House.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The sundial is of the C18, the plate engraved by 'I Coggs in Fleat Street, London'.
Exterior
The stone sundial is in the form of a well proportioned baluster set on a 4-way incurved moulded base, itself set on a circular plinth. The shaft has a necking ring and a turned circular capital carrying a brass double horizontal dial plate with a gnomon, engraved with the Myddleton arms, a months dial and the equations of the natural days.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of an C18 sundial, retaining the plate of a well known dialmaker, which is a focus in the E gardens of Chirk Castle.
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