File:Yew (Taxus baccata), St John the Baptist Church - geograph.org.uk - 906587.jpg
From Wikimedia Commons, the free media repository
Jump to navigation
Jump to search
Yew_(Taxus_baccata),_St_John_the_Baptist_Church_-_geograph.org.uk_-_906587.jpg (640 × 480 pixels, file size: 119 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg)
File information
Structured data
Captions
Summary[edit]
DescriptionYew (Taxus baccata), St John the Baptist Church - geograph.org.uk - 906587.jpg |
English: Yew (Taxus baccata), St John the Baptist Church The yew is often found in churchyards from England and Ireland. Some are likely to be over 2,000 years old, long predating the churches they are beside and betokening an earlier sacred site. The Christian church commonly found it expedient to take over these existing sacred sites for churches. It is sometimes suggested that these were planted as a symbol of long life or trees of death. An explanation that the yews were planted to discourage farmers and drovers from letting their animals wander into the burial grounds, with the poisonous foliage being the disincentive, may be intentionally prosaic. |
Date | |
Source | From geograph.org.uk |
Author | Trish Steel |
Camera location | 51° 00′ 00″ N, 2° 04′ 43″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.000110; -2.078500 |
---|
Object location | 51° 00′ 00″ N, 2° 04′ 43″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 51.000110; -2.078500 |
---|
Licensing[edit]
This image was taken from the Geograph project collection. See this photograph's page on the Geograph website for the photographer's contact details. The copyright on this image is owned by Trish Steel and is licensed for reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 license.
|
This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Generic license.
Attribution: Trish Steel
- You are free:
- to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work
- to remix – to adapt the work
- Under the following conditions:
- attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use.
- share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.
File history
Click on a date/time to view the file as it appeared at that time.
Date/Time | Thumbnail | Dimensions | User | Comment | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
current | 21:21, 21 February 2011 | 640 × 480 (119 KB) | GeographBot (talk | contribs) | == {{int:filedesc}} == {{Information |description={{en|1=Yew (Taxus baccata), St John the Baptist Church The yew is often found in churchyards from England and Ireland. Some are likely to be over 2,000 years old, long predating the churches they are besid |
You cannot overwrite this file.
File usage on Commons
There are no pages that use this file.
Metadata
This file contains additional information such as Exif metadata which may have been added by the digital camera, scanner, or software program used to create or digitize it. If the file has been modified from its original state, some details such as the timestamp may not fully reflect those of the original file. The timestamp is only as accurate as the clock in the camera, and it may be completely wrong.
_error | 0 |
---|