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Latitude: 53.1102 / 53°6'36"N
Longitude: -3.2862 / 3°17'10"W
OS Eastings: 314000
OS Northings: 357775
OS Grid: SJ140577
Mapcode National: GBR 6T.8083
Mapcode Global: WH77H.H2CZ
Plus Code: 9C5R4P67+3G
Entry Name: Chest Tomb at St Meugan's Church
Listing Date: 24 June 1999
Last Amended: 24 June 1999
Grade: II
Source: Cadw
Source ID: 21926
Building Class: Commemorative
ID on this website: 300021926
Location: Located within the churchyard on the S side, some 4m N of the churchyard cross.
County: Denbighshire
Community: Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Community: Llanbedr Dyffryn Clwyd
Locality: Llanrhydd
Traditional County: Denbighshire
Tagged with: Tomb
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.
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.
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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