An unmarked gravestone built into the wall of St. Mary’s Church on Harlow Hill. No one is entirely sure as to why the nameless headstone was incorporated into the structure of the church in this way.
One particularly dark rumour, however, holds that it was placed there to mark the location of some poor unfortunate who, according to ancient custom, would have been walled up alive during the building of the church as the means of sanctifying the edifice. Were this true, one might ponder why, in times past, the good Christian folk of Harlow Hill (if that was indeed what they were) would contemplate such an act of bloody heathenry and - indeed - the exact nature and form of divinity which might require such sacrifice as an act of dedication.
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