 Ewan Christian later restored the chancel while rebuilding the south wall of the church and reroofing.During the renovation, the stone coffin was rediscovered under the altar, with a skeleton with the skull split by an axe blow, in the same way that Tewdrig supposedly died.However historian Fred Hando claims from an eye-witness account that the skull only had a hole from a spear in it rather than an axe split.