3772 x 6596 px | 31,9 x 55,8 cm | 12,6 x 22 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
27 agosto 2025
Ubicazione:
St Nicholas’, Church Lane, Brockenhurst,
Altre informazioni:
Adjoining the church to the south-west is the Great Yew-Tree. Its girth, which was 15 feet in 1793 and over 18 feet in 1930, is now (at 5 feet from the ground) more than 20 feet. As the trunk is hollow the increase may be partly due to the spreading of the split sides of the trunk. Some of the branches reach out to a distance of 30 feet. The tree is, as Gilbert White wrote of the Selbourne yew, “probably coeval with the church, and therefore may be deemed an antiquity”. Various reasons have been suggested for the planting of yew-trees in church-yards; to screen the church from the violence of the wind; to provide wood for long-bows (but see below); to shelter the assembling congregation; and to serve, by their funereal appearance, as an emblem of mortality. The Yew was carbon dated in the mid 1980’s and a certificate stating that it is over 1, 000 years old will be found on the wall by the font.
