File:St Andrew, Greensted-juxta-Ongar - 51572794143.jpg
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English: Greensted Church, in the small village of Greensted, near Chipping Ongar in Essex, has been claimed to be the oldest wooden church in the world and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe still standing, albeit only in part, since few sections of its original wooden structure remain. The oak walls are often classified as remnants of a palisade church or, more loosely, as a kind of early stave church, dated either to the mid-9th or mid-11th century.
Greensted Church has possibly stood for nearly 1,200 years. A dendrochronological dating estimated its construction to 845 AD; a later analysis has reset the date of the timbers to 1053 (+10/55 years). The nave is made of large split oak tree trunks, which was a traditional Saxon way of building. The body of King Edmund the Martyr of East Anglia (who was killed in 870, possibly at Hoxne) is said to have rested there in 1013, on its way to reburial at Bury St Edmunds. |
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