Chirk

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Reference WMO/153176

Address:

Church Street

Chirk

LL14 5HB

Wales

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Status: On original site
Type: Freestanding
Location: External
Setting: Within a garden/park/churchyard/enclosure/Marketplace
Description: Pillar/column
Materials:
  • Stone Portland stone
Lettering: Incised
Conflicts:
  • First World War (1914-1918)
  • Second World War (1939-1945)
About the memorial: This war memorial includes work by, or attributed to, Eric Gill. War Memorials Trust recognises that Gill is a controversial artist. However, this website records war memorials so any artistic work should be considered as a war memorial. It commemorates those impacted by war, rather than being about the artists, craftspeople or contractors who created it. Links are provided via the Links tab for anyone seeking further information about Gill. The memorial stands in a central, paved island at the junction of Station Avenue with Church Road. It is a square stone column, the front (southern) face bears a relief figure in profile of a helmeted soldier wearing a greatcoat and holding a rifle with fixed bayonet. Beneath is the general commemoration for those who fell in WW1. On the faces either side (the western and eastern faces) are listed, in a single column, the names of 66 men who fell (33 per face). The names are in non-alphabetical order, giving first name and surname. On the northern face is the commemoration for those who fell in WW2, and listing 19 names, these in alphabetical order, in a double column, again giving first name and surname. Howard de Walden, owner of Chirk Castle, commissioned the sculptor, Eric Gill, to make the obelisk in 1919-1920.
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(WW1, South face) TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE HABITANTS AND INDWELLERS OF THE PARISH OF CHIRK WHO GAVE UP THEIR LIVES FOR THE CAUSE OF THEIR COUNTRY DURING THE WAR OF 1914-1919. THIS MONUMENT WAS ESTABLI- SHED BY THEIR FELLOWS OF THE PARISH. (WW1, north face) ER ARDDERCHOG GOFFA AM WYRYWAEN A RHOS EU HEINIOES YN ACHOS EU GWLAD YN YR RHFEL MAWR 1914-1919 (WW2) Y GOSODWYD Y MAEN HWN GAN EU CYDBLWYFOLION 1939-1945 IN LOVING MEMORY OF (Names) (Around the base) AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS HE DOTH JUDGE & MAKE WAR * REV.XIX.

(WW1) WILLIAM TOD, ALBERT ROSHANT, EDWIN HILL-TREVOR, STANLEY ROGERS, PHILIP PAYNE GALLWEY, JOHN MORRIS, GEORGE BAINES, ISAAC DAVIES, JAMES TOD, WILLIAM WILLIAMS, WILLIAM OWENS, JOSEPH WILLIAMS, WYNNE MINSHALL, HENRY BAILEY, ARTHUR DAVIES, JOHN HAYWARD, MAURICE MANNING, JOHN PARSONS, JAMES PIERCE, EDWARD EVANS, WILLIAM HUMPHREYS, EDWIN NASH, GEORGE BURGOYNE, JOHN JONES, SYDNEY ROGERS, SAMUEL CORK, ARTHUR EDWARDS, JOHN FAULKNER, ALFRED FIELDHOUSE, ALFRED HAMBLETT, JAMES HAMBLETT, FREDERICK HUGHES, ALBERT JONES, THOMAS LEWIS, EDWARD MORRIS, STANLEY PARRISH, CHARLES PEARCE, GILBERT ROBERTS, MAURICE ROBERTS, HERBERT TUNNAH, GEORGE WALKER, CHARLES WYMAN, EDWARD HALL, JAMES MORRIS, THOMAS MORRIS, JOHN WOOLER, ROBERT DAVIES, BERNARD JOB, CHARLES BAILEY, ALBERT KELSHAW, HENRY ROBERTS, GILBERT LLOYD, JOSEPH AINSLEY, WILLIAM BECKET, RICHARD BISHOP, WILLIAM HAMER, CHARLES JONES, ERNERST JONES, HAROLD JONES, WILLIAM JONES, WILLIAM PAGE, CECIL POPE, THOMAS ROWLANDS, ERNEST PHILLIPS, HAROLD OVERSON, ANDREW JACKSON. (WW2) MICHAEL ANKERS, LESLIE DARLINGTON, ELLIS EDWARDS, RONALD EDWARDS, FRED FRANCIS, RONALD JOHNSON, BERNARD JENKINS, EDWIN OWENS, GEORGE PHILLIPS, TERENCE PHELAN, STANLEY ROBERTS, FRANK ROBERTS, TOM SUDLOW, GORDON TAYLOR, HUGH WEBB, MORRIS WILLIAMS, VINCENT WILLIAMS, ERIC WILLIAMS, WALLACE ROBERTS.

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