Elmstead, Essex

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Elmstead
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St Anne and St Lawrence's Church
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Elmstead
Location within Essex
Population1,987 (Parish, 2021) [1]
Civil parish
  • Elmstead
District
Shire county
Region
Country England
Sovereign state United Kingdom
Post town Colchester
Postcode district CO7
List of places
UK
England
Essex
51°52′26″N0°58′30″E / 51.874°N 0.975°E / 51.874; 0.975

Elmstead is a village and civil parish in the Tendring district of Essex, England. The parish includes Elmstead Market, located south of Elmstead. At the 2021 census the parish had a population of 1,987.

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Parish Church of St Anne and St Lawrence

The Church of England parish church is dedicated to Saint Anne. The main parts of the church have been dated to around 1310; a South Chapel was added about 20 years later. The early 14th-century tower rises one and a half storeys and was never completed. The south wall of the chancel has a squint or leper window; [2] these were popularly supposed to have been used by people infected by leprosy to receive Holy Communion; their exact purpose is unknown. [3] On the sill of the east window is an oak effigy of a knight [2] perhaps depicting Lawrence de Tany, who died in 1317. [4]

Nearby settlements

Nearby settlements include the city of Colchester, the town Wivenhoe and the villages of Alresford and Elmstead Market.

Transport

For transport there is the A120 road and the A133 road nearby.

References

  1. ↑ "2021 Census Parish Profiles". NOMIS. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 31 March 2025. (To get individual parish data, use the query function on table PP002.)
  2. 1 2 An Inventory of the Historical Monuments in Essex, Volume 3: North East (1922), Royal Commission on Historical Monuments, (pp. 94-96 Elmstead), Date Accessed:14 November 2014.
  3. ↑ Curl, James Stevens (1999), A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, Oxford University Press, ISBN   978-0-19-860678-9 (pp. 441 & 459)
  4. ↑ "I/Mb 132/1/5 Photograph: Oak Effigy, perhaps of Lawrence de Tany, died 1317, in Elmstead Church". seax.essexcc.gov.uk. Essex Record Office. Retrieved 14 November 2014.


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