Newchurch - Powys

1873 – An extract from Kilvert’s diary: He describes the ‘great yew tree overhead bent weeping upon the grave’. When the tree blew down three cuttings were taken from it with the intention of planting them near Emmeline’s grave to replace their ‘mother’ tree’.
1988: A letter to the Conservation Foundation indicates the size of the lost yew: ‘Yew at west end of church by the churchyard gate – at 3ft. 7.7m girth and at 4ft. 7.4m girth. It is reported to have fallen in 1990. In addition the roughly circular churchyard has a partial ring of small yews around the perimeter – none of which exceed about 450cm’.