Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
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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