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Latitude: 52.9346 / 52°56'4"N
Longitude: -3.09 / 3°5'23"W
OS Eastings: 326836
OS Northings: 338022
OS Grid: SJ268380
Mapcode National: GBR 71.M5XB
Mapcode Global: WH78C.HHTM
Plus Code: 9C4RWWM6+R2
Entry Name: Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side
Listing Date: 29 July 1998
Last Amended: 29 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20250
Building Class: Domestic
ID on this website: 300020250
Location: The structure runs parallel to the S wing of the stables, on the lip of the escarpment
County: Wrexham
Town: Wrexham
Community: Chirk (Y Waun)
Community: Chirk
Locality: Chirk Castle
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Wall
The structure was built from 1852-3 by Edward W Pugin, architect, at the time of his renovation and refacing of the stable blocks.
The screen begins at the W with a small circular turret with conical roof at the top of the ramp wall. The screen wall to the next turret has a high parapet with wide spaced crenels above a raised walk along the rea which provides access to the two intermediate small rectangular towers with hipped slate roofs. Beyond the second tower, the screen wall follows the line of a large semicircular bastion, returning to the line at the E end, where there is a terminal turret, the wall returning to the end of the stable block.
Included as a strong element in the ensemble of buildings at Chirk, in which the Teutonic Gothic style favoured by E W Pugin provides an appropriate link between the austere fortress-like character of the original castle, and its romantic setting above the valley, in the context of C19 gothic sensibilities.
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