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Summary Description
Reference Number
21926
Building Number
Grade
II
Status
Designated
Date of Designation
24/06/1999
Date of Amendment
Name of Property
Chest Tomb at St Meugan's Church
Address
Location
Unitary Authority
Denbighshire
Community
Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Town
Locality
Llanrhydd
Easting
314000
Northing
357775
Street Side
Location
Located within the churchyard on the S side, some 4m N of the churchyard cross.
Description
Broad Class
Commemorative
Period
History
Late C17 heraldic chest tomb commemorating Grace and Simon Parry of Llanrhydd, d.1689 and 1692 respectively. Later inscriptions, to Martha Lewis, d.1788, and Edward Roberts, d.1825, also appear on the monument.
Exterior
Sandstone chest tomb of conventional, rectangular type, with heavy, inscribed tombstone surmounting (and oversailing) an arcaded chest structure. The latter has 3-bay, round-arched blind arcading to the sides with single blind arches to the ends; grooved decoration to the sides and arch spandrels, with prominent grooved imposts. The ends have rosette and heart motifs carved in relief in the spandrels, the W end with a good carved heraldic shield with the quartered arms of the Parrys of Llanrhydd. The tombstone has a continuous relief-carved border with stylised guilloche decoration; its edges have conventional guilloche carving.
Incised memorial inscription to Grace, wife of Simon Parry of Llanrhydd, d.1689. Below, occupying the lower half of the slab, is an inscription to Simon Parry of Llanrhydd, gent, d.1692. At the bottom, below this, is a later inscription to Martha Lewis of Wrexham, d.1788. On the N side, in the central blind arch, is an inscription to Edward Roberts, gent, of Ruthin, d.1825.
Interior
Reason for designation
Listed for its special interest as a fine C17 heraldic tomb chest having good group value with the Churchyard Cross and the Parish Church of St Meugan.
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