Tag: churchyard

  • Spring in the churchyard

    Spring in the churchyard

  • Accordion books

    Accordion books

    Accordion book with expressive calligraphy on white paper using oak twig and homemade iron gall ink. Additional marks made with watercolours. Board covers and supporting pages made from heavyweight brown paper painted with iron gall ink, watercolours and gouache. Measures 170mm high x 133mm wide x approx 20mm deep when folded. Fastens with cream cotton…

  • Oak

    Oak

    OAK At the back of the churchyard an oak has rooted beside a grave; each year the lichened slab is covered with galls. Searching among tussocks of wet grass I find celandines, primroses, violets, last year’s foxgloves springing again from the base of a plinth; Reginald William Hobhouse, Son of . . . Died Oct…

  • Dawlish Churchyard Yew

    Dawlish Churchyard Yew

    The Common Yew growing beside the tower of St Gregory’s Church, Dawlish, has recently been added to the online gazetteer maintained by the Ancient Yew Group. The entry is divided into two sections: the first supplies info on the location while the second provides details of the tree itself. The girth of the tree at the narrowest…