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List of public art in Denbighshire

This is a list of public art in Denbighshire in north-east Wales. Denbighshire's borders were established in 1996
under the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 and differ from those of the historic county of the same name. 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.

Contents
Betws Gwerfil Goch
Bodelwyddan
Bodfari
Carrog
Corwen
Map of Wales with Denbighshire
Denbigh highlighted
Glyndyfrdwy
Llangollen
Prestatyn
Rhuddlan
Rhyl
Ruthin
St Asaph
References

Betws Gwerfil Goch

Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

War Maerdy Road, Betws Obelisk on [1]

Granite
memorial Gwerfil Goch pedestal

Bodelwyddan
Title / Location and
Image Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates

Canadian W. Mansley & Son,

Parish Church of St Cross on Red [2][3]
soldiers 1919 monumental
Margaret, Bodelwyddan pedestal sandstone
memorial sculptors

Obelisk Bodelwyddan Castle Obelisk Stone

Medieval Statue in
Bodelwyddan Castle c. 1840 Stone
knight niche

Bodfari

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Title / Location and Artist /

Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

War St Stephen's Church, Statue on [4]

Granite
memorial Bodfari pedestal

Carrog
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

War St Bridget's Church, Wall-mounted Red marble on [5][6]

memorial Carrog tablet stone wall

Celtic St Bridget's Church, Celtic wheel [7]

Stone
crosses Carrog crosses

Corwen
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

SS Mael and
Preaching [8]
Sulien's Church, c. 9th–12th centuries Stone Q17739976
cross
Corwen

Owain Colin Statue on Bronze on [9]

Corwen 2007 4.5m high
Glyndŵr Spofforth pedestal stone

More images

Denbigh
Title / Location and
Image Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates

Martin Underwood
Evan Statue on Marble,
(column), W. and T. [10][11]
Pierce Denbigh 1872 pillar with limestone 15m high Grade II* Q17741187
Wills (statue) and
memorial relief panels and bronze
Mario Raggi (panels)

St Marcella
War Celtic cross [12]
churchyard,
memorial on pedestal
Denbigh

Statue of
War Crown Square, Charles Leonard winged [13][14][15]
1923 Stone 3m high Grade II Q29500708
memorial Denbigh Hartwell Peace on
pedestal

Henry
Outside Denbigh [16]
Morton 2011 Nick Elphick Statue Bronze
Library
Stanley

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Glyndyfrdwy
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

War Beside the A5, Celtic cross on [17][18]

Granite
memorial Glyndyfrdwy pedestal

Llangollen
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

Pillar of Cyngen ap [10][19]

Llangollen c. 9th century Pillar Stone Grade I Q3090852
Eliseg Cadell

More images

War Bridge St., Celtic wheel [20][21]

Granite
memorial Llangollen cross and plaque

More images

Prestatyn
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

Pochin's High Street, [22]

Fountain Granite
fountain Prestatyn

Former Council
Coat of Relief
Offices, Nant Hall Red brick
arms plaque
Road, Prestatyn

Eleanor Masons: RL
Leonard Boulton &
War Christ Church, High Cross on Portland
1920 Barnard 6.0m high Grade II Q29502678
memorial St., Prestatyn stepped stone Sons.[23]
(architect) [24][25]
base

Mother Near High Street,

Sculpture Bronze
and child Prestatyn

Marks the
northern end
Beginning
Prestatyn 2009 Sculpture Metal of Offa's
and End
Dyke
path.[26]

Rhuddlan

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Location and Artist /

Image Title / subject Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
coordinates designer

Sir William
St Mary's Church, Celtic
Shipley Conwy Stone
Rhuddlan cross
memorial

Memorial to John
John Lunt St Mary's Church Statue on
Stone Lunt, 1825–1884,
memorial Rhuddlan pdestal
sculptor.

Rhyl
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

Originally
Carrara constructed as a
Statue on
Garden of marble Boer War
War Herbert pedestal and
Remembrance, 1904 statue, memorial,
memorial Chatham 2 miniature
Rhyl granite subsequently
cenotaphs
pedestal expanded and
relocated.[27][28]

Clock Stone &

Rhyl Clock tower
tower limestone

1853
Promenade, Mike [29][30]
Lifeboat 2013 Sculpture Oak
Rhyl Owens
tragedy

Belgian Garden of
refugee Remembrance, 2015 Sculpture [31]
memorial Rhyl

Ruthin
Title / Location and Artist /
Image Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
subject coordinates designer

Peers St Peter's Square, Clock [32]

1883 John Douglas Stone Grade II Q7160462
Memorial Ruthin tower

Gorsedd Stone
Ruthin Granite
stones circle

Celtic [33][34][35]
War memorial Ruthin 1925 Harold Hughes Stone 3m high Grade II Q29507901
cross

Tom Pryce Relief Bronze [36]

Ruthin 2009 Neil Dalrymple 2.5m by 1m
memorial panel resin

Lion Ruthin Castle Statue Stone

Plas Meddyg Maggie

Ruthin Mural
mural Humphry

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St Asaph
Location and Artist /
Image Title / subject Date Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
coordinates designer

Bible Translators'
Memorial
Octagonal
William Salesbury tower,
Richard Davies loosely
William Morgan derived Unveiled
St Asaph Middleton
1892 from the Stone Grade II Q29481806 22 April
Gabriel Goodman Cathedral & Prothero
Eleanor 1892.[37][38]
Edmund Prys crosses,
Richard Parry with
More images John Davies statues
Thomas Huet

St Kentigern
Celtic
and St Asaph [39][40]
War memorial 1920s cross on
Parish Church,
pedestal
St Asaph

Gary and
Henry Morton Stanley St Asaph 2010 Thomas Pillar Metal 4m high [41]
Thrussell

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