The church of St. Edmund King and Martyrs in Tendring is a Grade II* listed building and dates back to the Thirteenth Century, with the north porch added in the Fourteenth Century, and some Nineteenth Century alterations including the rebuilding of the tower. The lovely stone tower that you see is unusual for the area as the Kentish Ragstone would have been mined near Maidstone in kent and transported to site.
The wooden north porch dates back to the 14th Century and the carved timber door cases are a very rare example of their kind, and are in remarkably good condition.
The unusual roof truss sits across the south and north doorways at the west end of the nave - the south door now leads into the south aisle. The ingenious 14th century carpenters used large timber frames for each door using the gable to support wall posts and braces of two hammerbeam supports, which in turn bear the weight of the roof. It is a type of roof truss typical of grand medieval buildings, and the architectural historian Pevsner remarked: "The tracery detail of the gables is clearly of the fourteenth century, and not too late in the century either, and thus this truss is earlier than the hammerbeam roof of Westminster Hall, in the text books still called 'the earliest in existence' " This means that it is likely that this one one of the oldest surviving hammerbeams.
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