Greenstead nr. Colchester / Grenesteda

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view of church exterior - north view

Source caption: "St. Andrew's church, Greenstead, Essex. About fifty years ago, Greenstead still had a village feel about it, but now it has been swallowed up by the ever growing town of Colchester. The church is Norman with a 16th century tower and a 19th century south aisle. The Norman builders re-used Roman brick, which must have been in abundance in Colchester."
Scene Description: Source caption: "St. Andrew's church, Greenstead, Essex. About fifty years ago, Greenstead still had a village feel about it, but now it has been swallowed up by the ever growing town of Colchester. The church is Norman with a 16th century tower and a 19th century south aisle. The Norman builders re-used Roman brick, which must have been in abundance in Colchester."
Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Robert Edwards, 2006
Image Source: digital photograph taken 22 June 2006 by Robert Edwards [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/192482] [accessed 12 June 2018]
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view of church exterior - southwest view

Copyright Statement: Image copyright © Peter Stack, 2009
Image Source: digital photograph taken 14 June 2009 by Peter Stack [www.geograph.org.uk/photo/2184012] [accessed 12 June 2018]
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INFORMATION

FontID: 16767GRE
Object Type: Baptismal Font1?
Church/Chapel: Parish Church of St. Andrew
Church Patron Saints: St. Andrew
Church Location: Forest Road, Greenstead, Colchester CO4 3XG , UK
Country Name: England
Location: Essex, East
Directions to Site: Located off (E) the A133 [aka St. Andrew's Ave.] just ESE of Colchester, and now part of it [Not to be mistaken with Greensted/Greenstead near Ongar, also with a parish church dedicated to St. Andrew]
Ecclesiastic Region: Diocese of Chelmsford
Historical Region: Hundred of Colchester
Font Location in Church: [cf. FontNotes]
Century and Period: 11th century, Pre-Conquest
Church Notes: this church is now one of three churches in the Greenstead with St Anne Ministry Team in North East Colchester.
Font Notes:
There is an entry for Greenstead [variant spelling] in the Domesday survey [http://opendomesday.org/place/TM0124/greenstead/] [accessed 12 June 2018]; it mentions a church in it. The entry for this ancient parish in the Victoria County History (Essex, vol. 9, 1994) notes: "The church existed by 1066, and at the Conquest passed with the manor to Eudes the sewer who c. 1119 gave to St. John's abbey tithes of Greenstead, presumably of his demesne [...] After Eudes's death in 1120 William of St. Clare acquired the church and between 1141 and 1151 gave it to the abbey, which kept the advowson until the Dissolution [...] The church was thoroughly restored in 1856- 7 [...] Extensive repairs in 1971"; there is no mention of a font in it. The entry for this church in Historic England [Listing No. 116980] reports an "Octagonal C19 font in a C15 style with blind tracery panelling."

COORDINATES

Church Latitude & Longitude Decimal: 51.8869, 0.9329
Church Latitude & Longitude DMS: 51° 53' 12" N, 0° 55' 58" E

REFERENCES

Victoria County History [online], University of London, 1993-. Accessed: 2010-07-08 00:00:00. URL: https://www.british-history.ac.uk.