Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Reference Number
20246
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
29/07/1998
Date of Amendment
29/07/1998
Name of Property
Sundial in front of the Hawk House in the E Garden
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Wrexham
Community
Chirk
Town
Wrexham
Locality
Chirk Castle
Easting
327091
Northing
337984
Street Side
Location
The sundial stands on the lawn below, and on the axis of, the Hawk House.
Description
Broad Class
Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces
Period
History
The sundial is of the C18, the plate engraved by 'I Coggs in Fleat Street, London'.
Exterior
The stone sundial is in the form of a well proportioned baluster set on a 4-way incurved moulded base, itself set on a circular plinth. The shaft has a necking ring and a turned circular capital carrying a brass double horizontal dial plate with a gnomon, engraved with the Myddleton arms, a months dial and the equations of the natural days.
Interior
Reason for designation
Included as a good example of an C18 sundial, retaining the plate of a well known dialmaker, which is a focus in the E gardens of Chirk Castle.
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