Essex Sources

The following sites contain information of interest.
Bank of England Inflation Indicator.
This allows you to check how prices in the UK have changed over time, from 1209 to now. For example £10 in 1700 is now worth nearly £1640.
www.bankofengland.co.uk
Parish Records
Links to free websites containing information regarding parish records. Covers the whole country. Just type in the parish you are interested in and see what is available. Also gives access to monumental inscriptions and maps of the parish.
www.dustydocs.com
National Survey of Medieval Stained Glass
The Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi (CVMA) is the international research project dedicated to recording medieval stained glass. In Great Britain, the CVMA is a British Academy Research Project, hosted by the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.
Essex is well represented, with excellent pictures. Search by parish. The section for Theydon Mount has images of the stained glass in Hill Hall. There are 13 images for St. Andrew’s, Greensted, 12 images for St Michael’s, Theydon Mount.
There are no images for Stanford Rivers and Stapleford Tawney,
Also there magazine Vidimus is on line and free to access.
www.cvma.uk.org