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Chirk Castle
Standing guard…
Date
26 August 2017
Location
Chirk, Wrexham Country Borough
SJ 26890 38042; 52.93476°N, 3.08920°W
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Chirk Castle
Chirk Castle
| Date | 3 April 2015 | ||
| Location | Chirk, Wrexham County Borough | SJ 26853 38088; 52.93517°N, 3.08976°W | |
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Lucchesi Bronze Nymphs, Chirk Castle
Lucchesi Bronze Nymph, Chirk Castle
| Date | 31 August 2012 | ||
| Location | Chirk, Wrexham Country Borough | SJ 26890 38042; 52.93476°N, 3.08920°W | |
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Andrea Carlo Lucchesi (1860 – 1924) was an Anglo-Italian sculptor born in London, whose father, from Tuscany, was a sculptor before him. Lucchesi trained at the West London School of Art and then at the Royal Academy. He started exhibiting in 1881. Lucchesi was an exponent of the late 19th-century British New Sculpture movement, a school based on naturalism and symbolism. His work, often mysterious and provocative, featured many female nudes; he considered the female figure to be “nature’s masterpiece”. There are four bronze nymphs by Lucchesi in the grounds of Chirk Castle. The statues were installed in the gardens by Lord and Lady Howard de Walden, who leased the castle from the Myddelton family from 1911 to 1946. Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, was a writer and patron of the arts and spent vast sums repairing and re-fitting the castle.
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Chirk Castle
Chirk Castle
| Date | 29 May 2011 | ||
| Location | Chirk, Wrexham, Wales | SJ 26853 38088; 52.93517°N, 3.08976°W | |
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Built in 1295 by Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March, and completed in 1310, Chirk Castle was one of Edward I’s Iron Ring — the chain of fortresses intended to encircle North Wales to suppress the Welsh. London merchant and founder member of the East India Company Sir Thomas Myddelton purchased the castle in 1595 for £5000. Myddelton’s son Thomas was a parliamentary commander and later a Royalist, and his son Thomas became 1st Baronet of Chirk. Much of the estate is still owned by the Myddelton family and the castle is now in the care of the National Trust. Chirk Castle (National Trust); Andrea Carlo Lucchesi (Wikipedia)
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