Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Statue in the E Garden
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Location
The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk Castle.
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
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.
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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