List of public art in Flintshire
Appearance
This is a list of public art in Flintshire, north-east Wales. Flintshire borders the English county of Cheshire to the east, Denbighshire to the west and Wrexham County Borough to the south. It is named after the historic county of Flintshire which had very different borders. This list applies only to works of public art on permanent display in an outdoor public space and does not, for example, include artworks in museums.
Bagillt
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | High Street, Bagillt | 1923 | Statue on pedestal | Marble | [1][2] |
Buckley
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Servicemen and women memorial | Royal British Legion, Buckley | 1983–84 | Cenotaph and sculpture | Stone and steel | [3] | |||||
Alyn and Deeside Coat of Arms | Buckley | Relief | Terracotta |
Caergwrle
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | Wrexham Road, Caergwrle | Celtic cross on stepped base | Stone | 3m high | [4] |
Caerwys
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Arthur Roberts memorial | Caerwys | Monolith | Slate |
Connah's Quay
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Connah's Quay and Shotton War Memorial | High Street, Connah's Quay | 1924 | Edward Jones (builder) | Cross on pedestal | Stone | Grade II | Q29506918 | [5][6] |
Ffynnongroyw
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | All Saints Church, Ffynnongroyw | 1994 | Pillar with urn | Granite | [7][8] |
Flint
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Boer War memorial | Chapel Street, Flint | 1903 | Obelisk | Pink granite | [9] | |||||
War memorial | Chapel Street, Flint | W. B. Edwards (architect) | Cenotaph | Stone | [10] | |||||
Footplate | Railway Station, Flint | Brian Fell | Sculpture | Metal |
Hawarden
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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William and Catherine Gladstone fountain | Glynne Way, Hawarden | 1889 | Edward O. Griffith | Three-sided fountain | Stone | Grade II | Q29492856 | Erected to mark the golden wedding of William and Catherine Gladstone.[11] | ||
Saint Deiniol | Gladstone's Library, Hawarden | 1902 | John Douglas | Statue | Stone | Grade I | [12] | |||
Second Boer War memorial | St Deiniol's Church, Hawarden | Tapering cross on hexagonal base | Stone | [13] | ||||||
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War memorial | Gladstone Way, Hawarden | 1920 | Giles Gilbert Scott | Obelisk with niche | Sandstone | 9.1m high | Grade II | Q29492871 | Niche holds figure of Christ on the Cross.[14][15] |
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William Ewart Gladstone | Grounds of Gladstone's Library, Hawarden | Erected 1925 | John Hughes | Statue on pedestal | Bronze and stone | Grade II | Q29492802 | Originally commissioned in 1910 for Dublin.[16][17] |
Mold
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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Hallelujah Obelisk | Rhual, near Mold | 1736 | Obelisk | Stone | Marks the site of a battle of AD 420.[18] | |||||
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Daniel Owen | Daniel Owen Precinct, Mold, Flintshire | 1896 | Goscombe John | Statue on pedestal | Bronze & stone | Grade II | Q29480968 | [19][20] | |
War memorial | Bailey Hill, Mold, Flintshire | 1926 | W. B. Edwards | Cenotaph | Portland stone | [21] | ||||
Daniel Owen | Mold, Flintshire | Monolith | Stone | |||||||
Steam Wheel sculpture | Chester Road, Mold, Flintshire |
Rhosesmor
[edit]Image | Title / subject | Location and coordinates |
Date | Artist / designer | Type | Material | Dimensions | Designation | Wikidata | Notes |
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War memorial | Rhosesmor | 1920s | Cross on pedestal | Sandstone & limestone | Grade II | Q29503098 | [22][23] |
References
[edit]- ^ "War Memorials Register: Bagillt". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "Bagillt Memorial". Flintshire War Memorials. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Buckley RBL". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Caergwrle". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Connah's Quay and Shotton". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "Connah's Quay and Shotton war memorial (85266)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "Ffynnongroyw war memorial". historypoints.org. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Ffynnongroyw and Penyfford". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Flint – Boer War". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Flint". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "Gladstone fountain, Hawarden (15079)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "St Deiniol's Library (15025)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Hawarden Boer War". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Hawarden". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "Hawarden war memorial (15094)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "The Gladstone memorial, Hawarden". historypoints.org. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "The Gladstone monument, Hawarden (15026)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Graham Watkins (2015). Welsh Follies, secrets, stories and scandals. Carreg Gwalch. ISBN 978 1 84524 215 2.
- ^ Jo Darke (1991). The Monument Guide to England and Wales. Macdonald Illustrated. ISBN 0 356 17609 6.
- ^ Cadw. "Statue of Daniel Owen (365)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Mold". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ "War Memorials Register: Rhosesmor Memorial Cross". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
- ^ Cadw. "Rhosemor war memorial (26207)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.