Llantysilio Church is a parish church inLlantysilio, nearLlangollen,Denbighshire, North Wales.[1]
It sits on uprising land from the banks of theriver Dee close to the local beauty spot of theHorseshoe Falls and source of water for theLlangollen canal.[2][3] The canal is a World Heritage Site and it starts here and continues eleven miles toChirk (and include the famousPontcysyllte Aqueduct).
It is dedicated to St Tysilio who lived in the 7th century.[4]
It was built in the 15th century[5] and then restored and modified by the German-bornCharles Beyer, one of the prominent engineers of theVictorian era, and noted philanthropist, who died in 1876 whilst at residence at nearbyLlantysilio Hall, only months after moving into his new mansion house, which he had just built and fitted out. He was buried in the church yard in the grounds of his 700-acre Llantysilio Hall estate. His gravestone of Aberdeen granite weighs over 2 tonnes. His will augmented the salary of the, then vicar of Llantysilio, H Humphrey for the rest of his life. He also left his Llantysilio Hall estate to his godsonSir Henry Beyer Robertson,[4] who became owner ofBrymbo Steelworks and a director of theGreat Western Railway.
The church features a medieval carved woodenlectern of a black crow or (raven).
The graveyard also holds the tomb of Thomas Jones of Llantysilio Hall. He left no will and this led to two grave robbing incidents looking for the will. The second attempt was thwarted by the church warden who summoned the police.[5]
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