Tomb of Bishop Hedley in Cathays Cemetery

An ambitious freestone Gothic shrine-like memorial raised up on a plinth with steps to the E side. The plinth has square piers to the angles, capped by 4-way narrow gables with fleur-de-lis in relief, and broad crocket finials. The sides of the plinth have arcades of blind cusped arches. The steps on the E side have a plain parapet. Set back from the W end is a buttressed 3-bay reredos. The buttresses are gabled and have bishops' crook and mitre in relief and the monogram CH. The reredos has thin gabled buttresses in its W faces, the inner with crosses to the gabled caps, the outer with the initial 'H'. The E side of the reredos, behind the tomb chest, has a central crucifixion set against a background of 4-leaf flowers in relief, below which is a shield, mitre and crook, and ICH in relief. The outer bays have figures of Mary and John. In the opposite W face the outer bays have cusped transoms, above which are panels with shields bearing fleur-de-lis in relief, framing 2 narrow subsidiary arches. The central bay has a canopied figure of the Madonna and Child on a corbel.

The tomb chest has a saddleback coping with fish-scale moulding, a weathered memorial inscription to the E end, while the N and S sides each have 3 shields with heraldic relief mouldings, set between round columns with foliage caps.