The 51 timber planks that form the nave of tiny St Andrew’s Church, in the village of Greensted-juxta-Ongar, were cut from English oaks in around 1060 – six years before the arrival of William ...

The origins of a church in Greensted may actually go back much further, to the revival of Christianity in Essex, thanks to missionary St Cedd from AD653.

Although maybe not as architecturally impressive, St Andrews Greensted is a very special building. Seldom does one come across a wooden church, let alone one this old.

St Andrew's in Greensted has links to a martyred Anglo-Saxon king ... Every year, the world's oldest wooden church attracts about 12,000 people from all over the globe, ...