Property developer Kim Davies (left), 60, brought in tombstones from a derelict chapel (right) and cemented them to the walls of Grade II listed Llanwenarth House in Abergavenny, South Wales (centre), where Cecil Frances Alexander wrote the hymn. One of the 150-year-old gravestones had the names of three brothers and a sister who all died while under the age of four. Jurors heard how planners were horrified when they saw the 'decorative stone plaques' had been used part of a gaudy £1m makeover to the historic home. The wealthy businessman, who owned the disused chapel at the time, also used some of the graves as flagstones for a patio which he built at the £2.25m country mansion. Planning officers at Brecon Beacons National Park only discovered the makeover after seeing the property's exterior in a newspaper property advertisement. He is due to be sentenced later today.
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