It measured 44 m tall, its trunk at breast height being 2.6 m in diameter, and comprised an estimated 81 meters cube of timber, 1911 photograph of the great elm at Magdalen College, fallen: Maxwell, Herbert, Trees: a Woodland Notebook, Containing Observations on Certain British and Exotic Trees (Glasgow, 1915), p.55: gutenberg.org  making it the largest tree of any kind in Britain and possibly the largest north of the Alps.