[129835] St Tegai, Llandygai : Wyatt Pyramid Memorial

            St Tegai, Llandygai, Gwynedd.
Churchyard.
Wyatt Pyramid Memorial
Grade ll* listed. 

An exceptionally fine churchyard monument of unusual pyramidal form commemorating Benjamin Wyatt, the very able and pioneering agent to the Penrhyn Estate in the late C18/early C19, and other members of the Wyatt family.

A large slate slab pyramidal monument on a square plinth of three steps with traces of fitting sockets for a railed enclosure to the bottom step. 

The north-east face has a long eulogistic inscription to Benjamin Wyatt (d1818 aged 73) "for upwards of 30 years the Chief Agent to the Penrhyn Estates" and another to his wife, Sarah (d1815 aged 68). The inscription on plinth records that as a "testimony of filial reverence and affection this sepulchre was erected at the sole and joint expence of their surviving children". 

The inscriptions on the north-west face to Mary (d1806 aged 20), Benjamin and Sarah's 5th daughter and to their youngest son, Arthur, who died in Bengal of a fever in June 1824 aged 28. S

The south-east face has an inscription to their 2nd daughter, Charlotte, who died 1815 aged 41, the wife of James Greenfield

Yhe south-west face an inscription to Benjamin and Sarah's 6th son, James (1795-1882) and his widow, Sarah (1800-1896).

Taken on: September 24, 2008

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