PGW(C)67(WRE)

Wrexham Cemetery  

II  

01/02/2022  

Designated  

Wrexham  

Offa  

332621  

349582  

Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces  

Garden cemetery  

1874-76.  

Registered for its historic interest as a Victorian garden cemetery, with surviving layout and planting, and for its group value with the listed cemetery chapel, lodge, gates, gate piers and railings. Wrexham Cemetery is a large Victorian cemetery occupying a rectangular area on the western edge of the town, between the B5099 and A5152 roads, and enclosed variously by walls and railings. It was laid out between 1874 and 1876 by Yeaman Strachan of Wrexham on gently rolling ground outside the town, with the Great Western Railway on its western boundary, extended eastwards in 1890. The cemetery was laid out as a public garden, with winding and straight paths, and scattered ornamental trees and shrubs, both coniferous and deciduous, including poplars, many limes, acacia, horse chestnut, ash, beech, weeping willow, cherry, oak, pine, yew and cypress. The main entrance is set back from the road on the south side, with cast iron main and side gates flanked by stone piers. Just inside the entrance is a small two-storey stone lodge (Cadw LB 1808) designed by William Turner of Wrexham, and inside the gates a small tarmacked forecourt in front of twin gothic chapels linked by a central arch also designed by Turner (Cadw LB 1807). Sources: Cadw 1995: Register of Parks and Gardens of Special Historic Interest in Wales, Clwyd (ref: PGW(C)11.