Photographs of Greensted Church

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Greensted Church near Chipping Ongar, is (in part) the oldest wooden church in the world and possibly the oldest wooden building in Europe still standing. Much has been added and renovated over the years. The oak palisade walls are supposedly remnants of a palisade church or a kind of early stave church, dated to the mid-11th century.
The chancel was added in Norman times but only the flint footings remain. Part of the walls are Tudor together with the roof, and the dormer windows and some of the brickwork were restored by the Victorians.