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Statue in the E Garden

A Grade II Listed Building in Chirk, Wrexham

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Coordinates

Latitude: 52.9346 / 52°56'4"N

Longitude: -3.0885 / 3°5'18"W

OS Eastings: 326938

OS Northings: 338024

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: 20241

Building Class: Gardens, Parks and Urban Spaces

ID on this website: 300020241

Location: The statue flanks the opening in the hedge between the top cross lawn and the lower fruit tree garden, E of Chirk 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 partly 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 eyes blindfolded, standing on a foliage encircled domical bronze 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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  • II Walls to the Privy Garden
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  • II Bronze Statue on a plinth in the E garden
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  • II Sundial in the E Garden
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  • II Dovecote
    The dovecote stands to the S of the S range of the Home Farm buildings, on the edge of the National Trust park.
  • II Gates to E Garden
    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.
  • II Screen Wall and Towers defining the S Stable Yard on the S side
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  • II* Stable Ranges
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