Places to visit in Essex

Cressing Temple

• Cressing Temple,
• Witham Road,
• Braintree,
• Essex.
• CM77 8PD
• (B1018 between Braintree and Witham)
• Website: http://www.cressingtemple.org.uk/

Cressing Temple
©Robert Edwards
Photograph by kind permission of Robert Edwards,
contributor to the Geograph Project

Historic site and scheduled ancient monument once owned by the Knights Templar. It contains two large barns one of which has been identified as oldest timber-framed barn in the world, built from oaks felled between 1257 and 1290. The site has also a farmhouse, granary, wagon lodge, stableyards and a Tudor walled garden.

Opening times and detailed information appears on the Cressing Temple's website linked above.

Barn interior
Photograph by Phil Gyford Some rights reserved