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Eastwood, so called because of its situation to the East of the woods of Rayleigh and Thundersley which were part of the Greater Forest of Essex, appears in the Doomsday Book 1086 as Estwda, held by Suen of Essex whose son, Robert de Essex, founded Prittlewell Priory. The first definite record of Eastwood Church is in 1100 AD when it became a chapel to the Priory whence monks were sent to serve it but there is evidence of a church at Eastwood before the date, probably the Norman nave of the present church with a small apsidal chancel. Since the Reformation the patronage of the parish has been held by the Crown.The Building Ragstone rubble with some puddingstone flints and Roman and Tudor brickwork. Nave Norman with remains of three windows high in the North Wall. First century roof with massive tiebeams to diagonal kingposts unusual in a village church.

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