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850th anniversary and Plant a Tree Year

Inscription

Taxus baccata (English yew) planted by the Rt. Revd. Bishop R. W. Stannard, Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners, on the occasion of the 850th anniversary of the foundation of the Priory and hospital of St Bartholomew in Smithfield and 1973 Plant a Tree Year. Presented by the Worshipful Company of Gardeners.

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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This section lists the subjects commemorated on the memorial on this page:
850th anniversary and Plant a Tree Year

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Plant a Tree Year, 1973

Event, Gardens / Agriculture

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

Event, Medicine, Religion

This section lists the subjects who helped to create/erect the memorial on this page:
850th anniversary and Plant a Tree Year

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Worshipful Company of Gardeners

Group, Gardens / Agriculture, Liveries & Guilds

Rt. Revd. Bishop R. W. Stannard

Master of the Worshipful Company of Gardeners in 1973.

This section lists the other memorials at the same location as the memorial on this page:
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850th anniversary

Taxus baccata (English yew) planted by the Revd. Dr. N. J. Wallbank, Rector a...

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