Stiffleaf's photos with the keyword: stave church

famous as an english stave church dendro-dated to the late c11 (around 1063-1100), there is a brick chancel of the early c16 and a white weatherboarded essex timber framed tower and shingled spire too, all set in bucolic surroundings near ongar

detail of the n.w. corner of the late c11 split log nave. the victorians rebuilt sill, roof and dormers, but left the oak staves much as they found them. there is a small niche cut into one of the logs low down on the left. the logs were split in half and a groove cut down each edge to take a fillet to join them together, each stave slotted into the long timbers top and bottom. the corner was turned by a post from which only a quarter was cut.