Ebenezer Scrooge's gravestone used in A Christmas Carol film destroyed

A prop gravestone for Charles Dickens' quality Ebenezer Scrooge which appeared successful the 1984 movie A Christmas Carol has been destroyed.

The inscribed chromatic has been successful the grounds of St Chad's Church successful Claremont Hill, Shrewsbury, since filming was completed and became a tourer attraction.

The headstone was vandalised betwixt Thursday and Sunday, West Mercia Police said.

Pictures showed it toppled implicit and smashed into astatine slightest 2 pieces.

The movie, which was mostly filmed connected determination successful Shrewsbury, starred George C Scott arsenic Scrooge.

After going to slumber connected Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past, contiguous and future, who effort to transportation him to alteration his ways.

The Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows Scrooge what volition go of his beingness if helium does not change, yet taking him to a cemetery wherever Scrooge brushes snowfall from a neglected gravestone, revealing his name.

The revelation causes Scrooge to vow to crook his beingness around.

'Hugely disrespectful'

The municipality is discussing what should beryllium done with the "hugely popular" stone, municipality clerk Helen Ball said.

"There's not overmuch to spot different than breached bits of the gravestone," she said.

"You can't spot that it says Ebenezer Scrooge astatine the infinitesimal due to the fact that it's truthful damaged. It's hugely disrespectful."

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Calling for poetic justness if the vandal is caught, she added: "If the ghosts of past, contiguous and aboriginal would similar to sojourn [the vandals] successful the mediate of the nighttime and driblet them and interruption them successful pieces, I deliberation that would beryllium a cleanable punishment."