This memorial stone is known as a monolith (it doesn't sit on a base stone - one-third of its height is buried in the ground) and has been hand carved into Welsh slate.

Yorkstone is very well suited to local churchyards and has traditionally been used for over three hundred years.

Rustic hand carved and painted lettering

Hand carved lettering shows a distinctive 'v' cut (these are carved into riven slate)

This boars head has been carved into Portland stone - it is unusual for a boars head design to be seen from the front - they are usually viewed in profile....

An extract from E E Cummings poem - 'Maggie and Milly and Molly and May'

Riven slate with hand carved inscription

Portland headstone with hand carved inscription.

Hand carved lettering on sandstone

Celtic Godhead design, hand carved into French limestone

Capital letter 'E' hand cut and painted into Yorkstone

Monolith type Yorkstone headstone with hand cut lettering

This beautiful little monolith type headstone has a hole cut through (window to another world) with hand cut lettering, painted gold.

The shape of this churchyard memorial required special permission by way of faculty to be erected.  There is carving to the front, back and sides of the stone.

Close up photo of compressed uncials, hand carved into Cumbrian slate and painted gold

This monolith type headstone has been hand carved (also to the back of the stone)