Monument in churchyard of St Cattwg is a Grade II listed building in the Neath Port Talbot local planning authority area, Wales. First listed on 26 November 2003. Monument.

Monument in churchyard of St Cattwg

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Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Neath Port Talbot
Country
Wales
Date first listed
26 November 2003
Type
Monument
Source
Cadw listing

Description

Stone monument with tapered sides and gabled top, flat front with finely lettered long inscription describing murder of Margaret Williams with much use of enlarged lettering for emphasis. Inscription reads '1823 To record MURDER this stone was erected over the body of Margaret Williams aged 26 a native of Carmarthenshire living in service in this parish who was found dead with marks of violence upon her person in a ditch on the marsh below this churchyard on the morning of Sunday the fourteenth of July 1822. - Although THE SAVAGE MURDERER escaped for a season the detection of man yet GOD HATH SET HIS MARK UPON HIM either for time or eternity and THE CRY OF BLOOD will assuredly pursue him to certain and terrible but righteous JUDGEMENT'.

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