The parish churchyard of Hay is small; it is somewhat of a triangular shape, and was formerly bounded upon two sides by a deep dingle or ravine; that on the east having a small stream flowing through it is called the Llogyn.
Some writers have supposed this ravine to have been originally used as a moat.
The hollow on the west side of the churchyard was partially filled up at the time of rebuilding the church.
In Hay churchyard may be found specimens of most of the quaint epitaphs commonly met with upon tombstones in rural churchyards, but none that we have seen are from their originality entitled to especial notice.
Outside the north wall of the church is a walk composed of old tombstones removed there from the interior, where they had previously been used for paving the floor of the church.
Several of these stones bear dates of the latter half of the eighteenth century, and upon a recent visit we only found one dated in the seventeenth, and that one as late as "1694."
The parish churchyard of Hay is small; it is somewhat of a triangular shape, and was formerly bounded upon two sides by a deep dingle or ravine; that on the east having a small stream flowing through it is called the Llogyn. Some writers have supposed this ravine to have been originally used as a moat. The hollow on the west side of the churchyard was partially filled up at the time of rebuilding the church. In Hay churchyard may be found specimens of most of the quaint epitaphs commonly met with upon tombstones in rural churchyards, but none that we have seen are from their originality entitled to especial notice. Outside the north wall of the church is a walk composed of old tombstones removed there from the interior, where they had previously been used for paving the floor of the church. Several of these stones bear dates of the latter half of the eighteenth century, and upon a recent visit we only found one dated in the seventeenth, and that one as late as "1694."
St Mary's Church, Hay-on-Wye