Tree

850th anniversary

Erection date: 1973

Inscription

Taxus baccata (English yew) planted by the Revd. Dr. N. J. Wallbank, Rector and R. F. Brook, Esquire, Treasurer of the Hospital to commemorate the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Priory and hospital of St Bartholomew in Smithfield.

Site: St Bartholomew's 3 trees (3 memorials)

EC1, Cloth Fair, St Bartholomew the Great graveyard

The millennium tree (in 2008 still a sapling) is in front of the half-timbered wall. The two yews commemorating the 850th anniversary are to the left; only one of them appears in the picture.

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850th anniversary of foundation of Priory & hospital of St Bartholomew, Smithfield

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R. F. Brook

Treasurer of St Bartholomew Hospital in 1973.

Revd. Dr. N. J. Wallbank

Rector of St Bartholomew's in 1973.

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