Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20238
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Sundial in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
326891
Northing
338034
Street Side
Location
The sundial is set in a pathway between the privy garden and the main top cross walk of the Eastern gardens of the Castle.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
Probably one of the sundials recorded as having been made for the gardens in the C17 by William Probert, who, in 1696, was paid fifteen shillings 'for a pillar of ffreestone pedistall & broad stone to sett the diall in the Castle garden'.
Exterior
A bold baluster shaft of stone with a necking ring and round ogee-moulded capital carrying a bronze plate and gnomon inscribed I MARK ONLY THE SHINING HOURS. The shaft stands on a moulded foot and is set on a circular slabbed stone platform.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as an early example of a baluster sundial, which became a favoured garden ornament in the C18; a component in the layout of the gardens at Chirk Castle.
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