Easthorpe, Essex

Easthorpe is a small village in the Colchester District, in the English county of Essex in the East of England. Easthorpe is on an old Roman road. Nearby settlements include the large town of Colchester and the villages of Marks Tey, Copford and Copford Green. Easthorpe also has a place of worship. For transport there is the main A12 road (England) and Marks Tey railway station nearby.

St Edmund. Nicely placed with a timber-framed house opposite and Easthorpe Hall a little to the west. Small church with nave and chancel under one roof. Belfry. Essentially Norman - see the west window high up, and several north and south windows and indications of windows as well as plain doorways. The Norman church had an apse. Of this the beginning is exposed on the south side. The chancel is an alteration of the C13. It has good sedilia with two pointed trefoiled arches on shafts and three widely spaced stepped lancet windows with internal dogtooth ornamentation. Some C14 windows were inserted to give more light. In addition there is a quatrefoil 'low side window' leading to a recess in the south wall. - PAINTING. Mid C13 figures in the jambs and splay of one south window: Resurrectionand Angels. - STAINED GLASS. Christ preaching, German or Swiss, c1530 (south window). - PLATE. Late C16 Cup and Paten, remodelled.

EASTHORPE HALL was built in the C15 with central hall and cross wings. The wing north of the hall block is C17.

WELL COTTAGE opposite the church may well be late C15. Both houses have remains of original roofs inside.

ST MARY'S GRANGE 1/4 mile east of the church has avC15 west wing with cambered tie beams inside, but the main block is C17 and C18 rebuilding.

References

• British History

The Buildings of England - Essex - Nikolaus Pevsner 2nd edition 1965 Coordinates: 51°51′N 0°46′E / 51.85°N 00.77°E / 51.85; 00.77