Buildings and Grounds Committee: Annual Gravestones Inspection
The annual safety inspection on all the gravestones and memorials within St. Deiniol’s Churchyard was completed recently by members of the Buildings and Grounds Committee assisted by volunteers. The safety inspection involves checking the integrity and stability of all the grave memorials and headstone within the churchyard which covers an area of 3.3 acres. Unfortunately there have been some of the old heavy sandstone headstones which have had to be laid flat as they posed serious risk of toppling over with the lightest of touch or disturbance. In each situation the exercise was carried out reverently and respectfully. Guidance for such inspections is taken from the Church in Wales website. In some areas of the churchyard there are gravestones which are leaning but have been checked and are still stable and secure. The churchyard is extensive with a vast number of headstones and memorials many of which are now ancient. The oldest part is that which immediately surrounds the church. There were two extension or additions to the area, one on the North West side in the 1840s and then the North extension in 1912 which has it s boundary with Crosstree Lane.
Gareth Jones: Buildings and Grounds Committee