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Reference Number
20241
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
29/07/1998  
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998  
Name of Property
Statue in the E Garden  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Wrexham  
Community
Chirk  
Town
Wrexham  
Locality
Chirk Castle  
Easting
326938  
Northing
338024  
Street Side
 
Location
The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk Castle.  

Description


Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  
Period
 

History
One of four bronze statues by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, the caster's name only partly legible as A Pach... Tranda(?) of London, placed in the E gardens of the Castle.  

Exterior
One of a pair, a cast bronze figure, approximately two-thirds life size, of a slender naked nymph in an attitude of sad resignation, her eyes blindfolded, standing on a foliage encircled domical bronze plinth.  

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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