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Gates to E Garden

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9355 / 52°56'7"N

Longitude: -3.0888 / 3°5'19"W

OS Eastings: 326915

OS Northings: 338118

OS Grid: SJ269381

Mapcode National: GBR 72.M062

Mapcode Global: WH78C.JGCY

Plus Code: 9C4RWWP6+5F

Entry Name: Gates to E Garden

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20270

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020270

Location: The gates are at the N end of the main cross walk at the head of the E gardens of the Castle, set within hedging.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

The E gardens of the castle were started by the construction of a cross terrace in 1761. The gates entering upon the terrace from the N are possibly C18, or C19 copies of similar work.

Exterior

The gates are of wrought iron. Two pairs of gates of decorative scrollwork, the scrolls rising above a horizontal bar, and hung on 3 wrought iron cage piers rising higher than the gates and topped with further light scrolls. To either side, low screen rails with arrow-headed dog rails, bracketed to the main piers with further scrolls.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a striking and flamboyantly designed set of gates forming an appropriate entrance to the eastern gardens of Chirk Castle, which contain a number of listed items.

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Other nearby listed buildings

  • I Chirk Castle
    The castle stands on a bluff overlooking and controlling the Ceiliog Valley. It is reached by Station Avenue running directly W from Chirk township.
  • II Sundial in the E Garden
    The sundial is set in a pathway between the privy garden and the main top cross walk of the Eastern gardens of the Castle.
  • II Statue in the E Garden
    The two statues flank the opening in the hedge between the upper cross lawn, and the lower fruit tree lawn in the E gardens of the Castle.
  • II Walls to the Privy Garden
    The privy garden adjoins the castle on the SE side. The walls define the it on the E and S, and on the W to the lower service yard
  • II Statue in the E Garden
    The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk Castle.
  • II Bronze Statue on a plinth in the E garden
    The figure stands at the S end of the top cross walk in the eastern gardens.
  • II* Stable Ranges
    The stables adjoin the castle to the S, forming two sides of the service courtyard
  • II Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side
    The structure runs parallel to the S wing of the stables, on the lip of the escarpment

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