| Ddisgrifiad / Description | Since 1970, members of the Church have been plagued by repeated suggestions that it is a Memorial to Jack the Ripper, the mysterious figure who murdered six prostitutes in London in 1888. Modern criminologists have assembled evidence to suggest that the Ripper could have been the Duke of Clarence, heir to the Prince of Wales. The Duke died in 1892, aged 28. The following year work began on the building of the Duke of Clarence Memorial Church at Craig y Don. An incribed Memorial Stone was laid in 1895 by the mother of Princess Mary of Teck, who having been engaged to the Duke of Clarence, married his brother in 1893 and later became Queen Mary, wife of George V.
The Church was completed with the addition of the present Chancel in August 1901 and was consecrated by Bishop Alfred George Edwards (who became the First Archbishop of the Church in Wales).
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