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Painswick - Yew Tree House

Nearest town: Gloucester

Site type: garden

Access: Private

Church name:

Diocese:

County: Gloucestershire

Country: England

Grid ref: SO86940973

Lost yew site: No

Date visited: 2/5/1988

Recorded by: Owner for the Conservation Foundation

Protection & responsibility: Owner

Yews recorded at this site: Ancient 4m-5m

Notes: The yew grows in the rear garden of Yew Tree House, Vicarage Street, Painswick, Gloucestershire. Younger trimmed yews grow in front of the house. In A Cotteswold Manor, Painswick, by St Clair Baddeley (1907) is the following (p220): "It may have been upon the occasion of the death of George II that the yew trees were planted in the churchyard......But they may have been seeded from the great yew of the Lovedays in the Yew Tree House garden. (p216) The date of the house is of the 17th century, and the yew trees in the front of it may be nearly as old (now trimmed): but the splendid specimen at the bottom of the garden may date from he death of Elizabeth (1603)."