HISTORY
In his book "Wild Wales" ( published 1854), George Borrow devoted a chapter to his visit to the Church of Penmynydd and recalled that ' A house, that of the clergyman, stands near the church, on top of the hill '. He refers to the house as 'a handsome parsonage' and goes to describe how 'a nice servant girl' went for the key to show him inside the church. There he asked to see the Tudor tombs which the girl described as that of Owain Tudor and his wife, the Great Queen. But Borrow was aware that ' The tomb is doubtless a tomb of one the Tudor race, but not the Rose of Mona and Catharine of France...[but] the tomb is some mighty one of the mighty race of Theodore[Tudor]'.

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