Greensted Church, the Church of St Andrew, stands in Greensted near Chipping Ongar in Essex. It is a Grade I listed building owned by the Church of England and still holds weekly services. The nave is made of large split oak trunks, a traditional Anglo-Saxon method, and is mostly original. It is often classified as a remnant of a palisade church or an early stave church.
Dendrochronology first suggested a date of 845 AD, but a 1995 analysis revised the date of the timbers to 1053. Traces of two simple wooden buildings under the chancel floor may date from the late sixth or early seventh century.
Other features include a leper's squint on the north side, flint wall footings and a pillar piscina from the Norman period. The brick chancel is later, and a white weatherboarded tower was added in the seventeenth century. Victorian restoration added brickwork and rebuilt the porch.
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