Stiffleaf's photos with the keyword: greensted

a ridged coffin lid of the c12 is just outside the church entrance

memorial to jone wood, nee' smith, + 1585

the interior is all dark wood; the old split logs do show but the impression is mostly of t.h. wyatt's rebuild of 1848. the odd ungainly wooden font is modern; this and the carpet are mistakes that pale before the mass of tourist tat for sale at the west end.

early c16 brick chancel with one original window and priests' door, built onto the flint remains of an earlier chancel, restored by t.h.wyatt in 1848 when the far end was rebuilt with some changes.

the date 1698 is veneered into one panel of the pulpit

a small c16 head from tudor greensted hall is in the west window

east end of the church, which was rebuilt in 1848 by t.h. wyatt during his restoration. the tower has a shingled broach spire.

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 split oak logs of the walls of the nave. the rounded exterior to the outside, the staves are held together with vertical fillets - tongue and groove- and sit into a slot in the sill. for a long time this was deemed an anglo-saxon building of before 1013, but the logs have been dendro-dated to between 1063 and 1100. even so, this was undoubtably built by saxons using a technique going back centuries, and used for their halls and barns before churches.

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.