Kemeys Commander

Correspondence between Roy D. Goodridge and Allen Meredith (1983) stated: ‘The very oldest inhabitants can recall a great yew’ and ‘whatever the structure was, it has long since disappeared, apparently having collapsed in a storm at the beginning of the century’.
Another source states that ‘Archdeacon Coxe described an unusual yew tree on his visit in 1799. ‘In the churchyard is a singular phenomenon, within a hollow yew tree fifteen feet in girth, is inclosed an oak, not less than seven feet in circumference; its branches rise to a considerable height, and overshadow the parent trunk, forming a singular combination of foliage’.’