Welsh slate gravestones

Our artwork is hand drawn and hand engraved and we work closely with the . All Ieuan Rees headstones are individually designed and then shaped and hand. Welsh slate is a wonderful medium for carving fine lettering. Headstones can be produced in either Welsh Slate , Westmoreland Green . Hand carved memorials carved in slate , limestone and sandstone.

I use British stone where possible such as Welsh and Westmorland slate , sandstone from . Here at Snowdona Natural Slate Products we can produce a number of different headstones and memorials. The slate headstones can be sold plain or we can . We engrave lovely memorial plaques onto high quality stone such as welsh slate , sandstone and marble. Personalised Engraved Slate Stone Headstone Grave Marker Plaque 7 . Memorials - headstones or gravestones - are some of the most important things.

Flat headstones (flat tablets, flat markers) are usually made from granite or bronze. This Pin was discovered by Sam Owen.

Discover (and save!) your own Pins on Pinterest. A Headstone in slate for Joy Joy died when she was 13. It was a sad honour to make her stone.

We used her own designs to decorate the memorial along with a. We have a wide variety of British stone and slate samples and examples of different carved lettering to look at which helps in. Portland stone headstone and kerbstones, relief carved badge. Bespoke Portland limestone headstone with welsh slate insert. Crawiau ( slate slab fences) near Abergynolwyn. Once gravestones became common in Welsh churchyards, in the . This memorial is the front of the Welsh Slate headstone shown on the bottom right of this page with Hand Cut Letters and Floral design also cut by hand.

Headstone Välimuistissa Samankaltaisia Käännä tämä sivu A headstone , tombstone , or gravestone is a stele or marker, usually stone, that is placed over a. Slate can have a pleasing texture but is slightly porous and prone to delamination. Multilingual gravestone : Welsh , English, French. Harriet Frazer with Welsh Slate Monolith, designed and carved by John. The regulations for churchyard headstones in England – ultimately at . Welsh Slate headstones dating from the th Century can be found in cemeteries throughout the UK and cemeteries located close to the slate quarries in .

A Welsh Slate headstone with heraldic carving, lower- and upper-case Roman caps and tooled beveled edge. Memorial Blanks for headstones in Welsh Slate , Cumbrian Slate and Yorkshire Sandstone. North Wales, they were the work of James Connelly, a. Has anybody come across headstones. The material used should be natural stone or slate selected from those. One of the other distinctive features of Swithland slate gravestones is that the front of the stone is completely smoothe whilst, unlike Welsh.

Perhaps no one knows the bond that Slate Ridge Cemetery holds to the Welsh community in Delta, Pennsylvania more than the Welsh. Incised foundation stone Portland limestone, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford. This very large and heavy rectangular headstone , in welsh slate with blue inscribed lettering, stands out from the other gravestones in the churchyard. A slate headstone designed together with the customer Maria Gist.

We can supply headstones in various materials including Granite, Slate and . Hand drawn and carved memorials and headstones for which are unique to the. Above the grave stands a simple headstone of rough, unpolished slate , which offers two messages. The first is straightforward and moving: the . Creating special memorials Specialists in creating bespoke monuments and memorials. Image above, hand cut letters on Welsh Slate.

It also supplied gravestones to all the local cemeteries and because of the excellent. However, with the cheaper and softer Welsh Slate coming on the market, .