Cemetery, Church of St Tysilio and St Mary, Meifod, Welshpool, Powys, Wales, UK
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Ddraig Ddu
N 52° 42.600 W 003° 15.113
30U E 482983 N 5840040
The churchyard cemertery of St Tysilios and St Marys is a large, semi-circular enclosure with an abutting stream on south, originally covering 2.2ha, but enlarged to approximately 5.44ha, as an approximate, I would say there are thousands of graves.
Waymark Code: WMG7VZ
Location: North Wales, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/26/2013
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"It is a flat, but slightly above the valley floor. Encroachments in north-east quadrant (Brook Cottages) and particularly on west where houses, chapel and yard adjacent to Church Walk all occupy earlier churchyard.
Boundary: stone wall around most of western, northern and eastern perimeter, disappearing in the vicinity of the scarped river terrace (see below) on east and west. Stone wall in reasonably good condition on north, where local report suggests it was taken down and rebuilt (in the same place?) during modern road improvements, but in poorer state of repair on east.
Monuments: tombs reasonably dense to south and east of a raised track cutting diagonally across churchyard; none to north and west. Few if any below the river terrace scarp. One gravemarker resting against the south wall of the church is dated 1676, and there are some 18thC chest tombs, though the inscriptions are generally worn. A skull and crossbones slab is set at the east end of the church.
Furniture: brass sundial on stone baluster pedestal, south of tower: inscribed 'Fran. Cleaton fecit 1710'.
Earthworks: the scarp bank just within the southern boundary is a natural river terrace, but it may have functioned as earlier boundary. Church sits on a low mound visible particularly on east and north, less so on west, and merges with river terrace on south. Raised track across churchyard from north-east to south-west. Reportedly kept dry during floods but original purpose not clear.
Ancillary features: stone stiles in north-east and south-west, iron gates on north. Possible demolished structure at south end of east churchyard wall - disturbed concrete plinth only. Also former school/hall, now used by builder for storage, within north-west sector.
Vegetation: some yew trees, mainly in southern half and at east end of the church. One mature example. Also a mixture of coniferous and deciduous trees, again on the south side."
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