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Latitude: 52.9325 / 52°55'56"N
Longitude: -3.057 / 3°3'25"W
OS Eastings: 329051
OS Northings: 337755
OS Grid: SJ290377
Mapcode National: GBR 73.M7Y2
Mapcode Global: WH89J.0KL7
Plus Code: 9C4RWWJV+X6
Entry Name: War Memorial
Listing Date: 29 July 1998
Last Amended: 29 July 1998
Grade: II*
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20202
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300020202
Location: The war memorial is set on a traffic island at the junction of Station Avenue with Church Street, near the centre of Chirk
County: Wrexham
Town: Wrexham
Community: Chirk (Y Waun)
Community: Chirk
Built-Up Area: Chirk
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: War memorial Sculpture
The memorial was designed by the noted designer and sculptor Eric Gill and set up in 1919-1920 after the Great War, commissioned by Lord Howard de Walden of Chirk Castle. A further inscription was added after 1945.
A simple tapered square obelisk of Portland Stone set on a round nosed low step, the riser curved back. The top of the obelisk is gabled at 45 degrees on each angle. On the S face there is a bas-relief hunched figure of a great-coated and helmeted soldier, holding his rifle and bayonet. Below, an elegantly lettered inscription to the 'habitants & indwellers of the parish of Chirk' who died in the conflict of 1914-1919. On the sides, the names of 66 men, also carved in bold Roman capitals. On the rear, the inscription in Welsh to 'Wyr y Waun'. Below the names of 19 men killed in the 1939-1945 war have been added. Around the monument and below the inscriptions, cut in larger capitals, the further, slightly plaintive, inscription 'AND IN RIGHTEOUNESS HE DOTH JUDGE & MAKE WAR REV.XIX'
Included at II* as a remarkable war memorial by a pre-eminent British sculptor and designer, where great dignity has been achieved by the austerity of the form, the pathos of the figured relief and the spare elegance of the lettering. A monument occupying a prominent position in the Chirk conservation area.
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