St Andrew's

This is St Andrew's churchyard on Rodney Street.

Inside the pyramid is the body of William McKenzie, who died in 1851. McKenzie made his fortune as a civil engineer in the Victorian era but it is the nature of his burial, or lack of it that has become legendary.

It is said he was a notorious gambler and that one day he made a pact with the Devil to ensure he got a winning hand during a poker match. The price, of course, was his soul. When he became ill shortly afterwards he got worried that the Devil may actually come for him, so left instructions that he was not to be buried, but instead encased in a pyramid, sat upright at a table with the winning cards. His logic was that if he was not buried in the ground the devil would not take him.