Wooden walls...

I drove down to Writtle near Chelmsford to meet Sue, Bev and Alex colleagues from the old J's Hospice days for lunch and a catchup. The Rose and Crown in Writtle is well recommended if your out that way. It was lovely to see them and catchup with their news.

On the way I stopped at Greensted to take this photo of the little church there. St Andrews is thought to be the world's oldest surviving building built with wooden walls. In the sixties a Dendrochronology survey suggested the building dated back to 845 AD but a later survey in 1995 placed the building right at the time of the conquest, 1066 AD give or take a year or two.

The extra photo shows the split oak trunk walls that have survived.