Full Report for Listed Buildings
Summary Description of a Listed Buildings
Date of Designation
10/04/2000
Date of Amendment
10/04/2000
Name of Property
Graveyard monument at the Church of St Michael
Unitary Authority
Gwynedd
Community
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Locality
Llanfihangel-y-Pennant
Location
The monument stands within the graveyard, at the SE corner of the chancel of the Church of St Michael.
Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary
History
Erected c1704 as a memorial for members of the Pughe family.
Exterior
A much-weathered slab of the local grey slate, supported on two composite drums of stone, and relating directly to the recessed moulded panel in the chancel E wall above. This reads [.. .... ] THISTO/MB:WERE:BURIED / GRACE PUGHE / ALIAS GRUIFFHS / VIGRLILL SEPTE/MBER21 AD 1679(?) / IGMS FB 23 1691 / AND MARY PUGH / JUNE 19 1704 REDE / MPTOR NOSTER PVMFT(?).
Reason for designation
Included as a graveyard monument of unusual form, with its associated inscription retaining part of a traditional Roman formula, rare for the period.
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