The South Chapel
The size of Rysbrack's monument created a problem; the chancel was small and over crowded. More space had to be found and a Faculty was granted to Dame Frances, in 1753, to add a chapel at the south east end of the church, adjacent to the chancel '... to make erect and build a handsome convenient Isle or building... in order to erect monuments seats and pews therein and making a burying vault underneath the same or otherwise to apply the same to Godly purposes' .The work was carried out in 1755 and is recorded in some detail in the Wynnstay accounts.
Alongside Rysbrack's monument to the third baronet is a mural tablet to his
second son born posthumously. William W.Wynn (b.19 April 1750-d.11 August
1763). It is of great refinement, with oval medallion and sarcophagus in the
style of Robert Adam.
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