Pauline von HellermannJul 4, 2023

Starting a little #ThickTrunkTuesday series today: every week a short 🧵on a different #Tree and its #historicalecology, meanings, uses, #Mythology etc.

Today it’s the #Yew - a tree I’ve been intrigued by ever since we first came across this big old yew tree next to #Wilmington church here in #Sussex. It’s over 1,500 years old and pretty amazing! 1/x

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2/x a while later i noticed this #yew right next to St Mary’s #church here in #Eastbourne and realised there may be connection between yews and churches. It happened to be Easter that day - also about #Pagan and #christian syncretism
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3/x so decided to look into this a bit more - and, of course (as many of you here will know already) - came across so many wonderful old yew trees next to churches! I collected them all on Twitter - here just two of the most famous ones: two #Yew trees outside St Edward's Parish Church, Stow-on-the-Wold ...
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@pvonhellermannn
I don’t know what to admire more, the trees or the door. Individually they are beautiful but together they couldn’t be more perfect.
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@BundMori yes, everything together is just wonderful. The lamp, too
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The type of place I would happily sit and stare at for hours, hoping it would tell me all the things it has witnessed.
Jul 5, 2023 at 5:31amWeb