Latitude: 52.9349 / 52°56'5"N
Longitude: -3.0859 / 3°5'9"W
OS Eastings: 327111
OS Northings: 338051
OS Grid: SJ271380
Mapcode National: GBR 72.M0X7
Mapcode Global: WH78C.KHRD
Plus Code: 9C4RWWM7+XJ
Entry Name: Medieval Font in the E Garden
Listing Date: 29 July 1998
Last Amended: 29 July 1998
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 20245
Building Class: Religious, Ritual and Funerary
ID on this website: 300020245
Location: The font is placed at the topmost point of the rock garden, behind the Hawk House, in the E gardens of Chirk Castle.
County: Wrexham
Town: Wrexham
Community: Chirk (Y Waun)
Community: Chirk
Locality: Chirk Castle
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Architectural structure
The font is of the C14, and is said to have been brought to Chirk Castle from Valle Crucis Abbey in the late C19, and set up in the rock garden.
The font is of stone, octagonal, tapering down to a short circular stem and ovolo basal ring. It is mounted on circular plinth of 2 steps.
Included as an item of archaeological interest, and an embellishment to the rock gardens created at Chirk Castle on the slope of the enhanced mound on the E axis of the castle.
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