Excavation of Belgic and Romano-British farm with Middle Saxon cemetery andchurches at Nazeingbury, Essex. 1975-76 (short extract)

… at Greensted, Essex, the staves are stout halved tree trunks set in a continuous line
and mortised into a sill beam set on or into the ground (Smart Lethieullier described this
arrangement and had elevations drawn in 1748; VCH, Essex, IV, 61) thus the staves
themselves, through a wall plate, would take the roofload. The church at Greensted was
possibly built c. 1013 (RCHM, 11, 112) although the church leaflet recently on sale gives a
dendrochronological date of AD 845.