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
20270
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Gates to E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326915
Northing
338118
Street Side
Location
The gates are at the N end of the main cross walk at the head of the E gardens of the Castle, set within hedging.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The E gardens of the castle were started by the construction of a cross terrace in 1761. The gates entering upon the terrace from the N are possibly C18, or C19 copies of similar work.
Exterior
The gates are of wrought iron. Two pairs of gates of decorative scrollwork, the scrolls rising above a horizontal bar, and hung on 3 wrought iron cage piers rising higher than the gates and topped with further light scrolls. To either side, low screen rails with arrow-headed dog rails, bracketed to the main piers with further scrolls.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a striking and flamboyantly designed set of gates forming an appropriate entrance to the eastern gardens of Chirk Castle, which contain a number of listed items.
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