Chest Tomb at St Meugan's Church

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.