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Statue in the E Garden

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9347 / 52°56'4"N

Longitude: -3.0885 / 3°5'18"W

OS Eastings: 326938

OS Northings: 338027

OS Grid: SJ269380

Mapcode National: GBR 72.M09N

Mapcode Global: WH78C.JHJL

Plus Code: 9C4RWWM6+VJ

Entry Name: Statue in the E Garden

Listing Date: 29 July 1998

Last Amended: 29 July 1998

Grade: II

Source: Cadw

Source ID: 20240

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020240

Location: 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.

County: Wrexham

Town: Wrexham

Community: Chirk (Y Waun)

Community: Chirk

Locality: Chirk Castle

Traditional County: Denbighshire

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History

One of four bronze statues by Andrea Carlo Lucchesi, the caster's name only partially legible as A Pach... Tranda(?) of London, placed in the E gardens of the Castle.

Exterior

One of a pair, a cast bronze figure, approximately two-thirds life size, of a slender naked nymph in an attitude of sad resignation, her hands tied behind her back, and standing on a foliage encircled domical plinth.

Reasons for Listing

Included as a work of sculpture of the aesthetic movement of the late C19-early C20, one of four embellishing the formal gardens carried out for Lady Howard de Walden at Chirk Castle.

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