Congresbury

Nearest town: Bristol

Site type: churchyard

Access: Public

Church name: St Andrew

Diocese: Bath and Wells

County: Somerset

Country: England

Grid ref: ST43556375

Lost yew site: Yes

Date visited: 1-Oct-97

Recorded by: Tim Hills

Protection & responsibility: No data

Yews recorded at this site: Lost

Notes: St Andrew's church was consecrated in 1215. It is considered by some to have been built on the site of St Congar's original wattle church. The drawing dated 1829 shows a tree SE of the church. Is it an artist's representation of the Congresbury Yew? In Rutter's 1826 Delineations of the NW Division of Somerset is the following: "The chancel windows are good specimens of the perpendicular era, and are shaded by an unusually fine yew tree."