Map of Wales with Flintshire highlighted

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

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial High Street, Bagillt 1923 Statue on pedestal Marble [1][2]

Buckley

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

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

More images 		War memorial Wrexham Road, Caergwrle Celtic cross on stepped base Stone 3m high [4]

Caerwys

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Arthur Roberts memorial Caerwys Monolith Slate

Connah's Quay

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

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial All Saints Church, Ffynnongroyw 1994 Pillar with urn Granite [7][8]

Flint

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

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

More images 		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]

More images 		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

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
Hallelujah Obelisk Rhual, near Mold 1736 Obelisk Stone Marks the site of a battle of AD 420.[18]

More images 		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

Image Title / subject Location and
coordinates 		Date Artist / designer Type Material Dimensions Designation Wikidata Notes
War memorial Rhosesmor 1920s Cross on pedestal Sandstone & limestone Grade II Q29503098 [22][23]

References

  1. ^ "War Memorials Register: Bagillt". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Bagillt Memorial". Flintshire War Memorials. Retrieved 1 December 2020.
  3. ^ "War Memorials Register: Buckley RBL". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  4. ^ "War Memorials Register: Caergwrle". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  5. ^ "War Memorials Register: Connah's Quay and Shotton". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  6. ^ Cadw. "Connah's Quay and Shotton war memorial (85266)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  7. ^ "Ffynnongroyw war memorial". historypoints.org. Retrieved 4 March 2020.
  8. ^ "War Memorials Register: Ffynnongroyw and Penyfford". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  9. ^ "War Memorials Register: Flint – Boer War". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  10. ^ "War Memorials Register: Flint". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  11. ^ Cadw. "Gladstone fountain, Hawarden (15079)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  12. ^ Cadw. "St Deiniol's Library (15025)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  13. ^ "War Memorials Register: Hawarden Boer War". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  14. ^ "War Memorials Register: Hawarden". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  15. ^ Cadw. "Hawarden war memorial (15094)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  16. ^ "The Gladstone memorial, Hawarden". historypoints.org. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  17. ^ Cadw. "The Gladstone monument, Hawarden (15026)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  18. ^ Graham Watkins (2015). Welsh Follies, secrets, stories and scandals. Carreg Gwalch. ISBN 978 1 84524 215 2.
  19. ^ Jo Darke (1991). The Monument Guide to England and Wales. Macdonald Illustrated. ISBN 0 356 17609 6.
  20. ^ Cadw. "Statue of Daniel Owen (365)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  21. ^ "War Memorials Register: Mold". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  22. ^ "War Memorials Register: Rhosesmor Memorial Cross". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
  23. ^ Cadw. "Rhosemor war memorial (26207)". National Historic Assets of Wales. Retrieved 25 March 2020.
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