Geograph - photograph every grid square

I realise this is a purely subjective claim, but it is one I make. The Weeping Beech, Fagus sylvatica pendula, in Walcot is sheltering the east end of the lovely church of St Nicholas.

The Weeping form is a sport, a cultivar, of the normal European Beech, and was discovered in 1836 by John Claudius Loudon, a London plantsman. All the specimens around the world are grown from cuttings of that original tree.

There is one at Kew, at the end of the Broad Walk, which is similar, and which can't date earlir than the 1836 date. I suspect both that one and the one in Walcot date from the late 1830s. There is another in Hyde Park, known as the Upside-down tree, which is quite a bit younger. There have, more recently, been trees based upon the copper variation in Beech - such as TF0820 : Weeping Beech in a garden in a suburban garden not so very far away.

There are many guides to tree identity on the web. But few concentrate upon the bark, the trunks, rather than leaves and blossom, and fruits. So this collection will do what it can to improve representation of the lower structures.

Grade I listed.
Dating from the 12th century onwards, and restored in 1907 & 1926.
It has a 2 stage west tower with a tall crocketed broached spire from 14th Century. The tower arch is also from this period. Entered through a 17th C door in the south porch, the nave arcades are 13th C. but rest on even older bases. The font is Norman but recut in 18th C. The clerestory windows are 15th Century. The carved pew ends are 500 years old.
There is a double hagioscope. In the south aisle is a C13 trefoil headed piscina. The roof is a 14th C braced tie beam.