Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St Tegai is a Grade II* listed building in the Gwynedd local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 24 May 2000. Monument.

Wyatt Memorial at the Church of St Tegai

WRENN ID
winter-bronze-acorn
Grade
II*
Local Planning Authority
Gwynedd
Country
Wales
Date first listed
24 May 2000
Type
Monument
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Large slate slab pyramidal monument on square plinth of 3 steps with traces of fitting sockets for railed enclosure to bottom step. North-east face has long eulogistic inscription to Benjamin Wyatt (d.1818, aged 73) "for upwards of 30 years the Chief Agent to the Penrhyn Estates" and another to his wife, Sarah (d.1815, aged 68); 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". Inscriptions on north-west face to Mary (d.1806, 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. South-east face has inscription to their 2nd daughter, Charlotte, who died 1815, aged 41 the wife of James Greenfield and the south-west face an inscription to Benjamin and Sarah's 6th son, James (1795-1882) and his widow, Sarah (1800-96).

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