Chirk War Memorial

The memorial stands on a traffic island at the east end of Station Avenue, at its junction Church Street.

It was commissioned as a First World War memorial by Thomas Scott-Ellis, 8th Baron Howard de Walden, tenant at Chirk Castle, and designed and made by the English sculptor Eric Gill.

The memorial comprises a tapered square obelisk of Portland stone, standing on a low step which curves out to form a platform.

The south face has a bas-relief carving of a soldier in profile facing east, in greatcoat and helmet, hunched forward over his rifle and bayonet, above the main inscription which reads: "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 GREAT WAR OF 1914-1919 / THIS MONUMENT WAS ESTABLI-/SHED BY THEIR FELLOWS / OF THE PARISH / IN RIGHTEOUSNESS".

The west and east faces are inscribed with the names of the 66 fallen men of the parish, with 33 forenames and surnames on each side.