Walking In St Andrews

Today we waked around the grounds of St Mary’s College entering through the gate on South Street.

 St Mary's College, founded as New College or College of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is the home of the Faculty and School of Divinity within the University of St Andrews, in Fife, Scotland.

Today’s Blipfoto shows one of Scotland’s 100 Heritage Trees and a sculpture.

“The St Andrews Holm Oak (Quercus ilex) is a fine, healthy specimen of a species that was introduced to Great Britain in about 1500, and is one of few good examples of the species in Scotland. Thought to have been planted about 1740, its short trunk is an impressive 3.67 metres (12 feet) in girth, the largest recorded for Holm oak in Scotland. The shapely crown had to be heavily pruned after storm damage in 2004. The tree is recovering well and putting on vigorous new growth.

The sculpture is of Henry Wardlaw, Bishop of St Andrews. 1403-1440.

The bronze sculpture is the work of David Annand, Kilmany who was the creator of the Jim Clark Memorial Sculpture.

It was a very sunny day and walking through the grounds there were more students about and signs that the University is preparing for the next Academic Year.