Cherie's Place » The Master http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog Random thoughts and photos of my journey through life… Tue, 14 Apr 2026 22:58:26 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Packwood House – The Yew Garden http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/05/18/packwood-house-the-yew-garden/ http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/index.php/2011/05/18/packwood-house-the-yew-garden/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 14:21:03 +0000 CherryPie http://www.cheriesplace.me.uk/blog/?p=5777 The yew garden is Packwood’s rarest and most famous feature – a representation of the Sermon on the Mount.  At one end of the garden  there is a raised path which is reached by a short flight of steps:

This transverse walk is flanked by twelve great yews now known as ‘The Apostles’ with four very big specimens in the middle known as ‘The Evangelists’.  Crowning ‘The Mount’, reached by a spiral path hedged with box and on the axis of the garden, is a single yew tree, ‘The Master’, also sometimes called ‘The Pinnacle of the Temple’.*

In the first photo you can just about see the steps leading to ‘The Apostles’ which can be seen to the left of the photo with ‘The Master’ being just out of view.  The trees to the right and in the second two photos are  ‘The Multitude’,  these yews replaced an orchard in the 19th century.

Apostles

The Mulitude

The Yew garden

*From the National Trust guidebook.

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