Medieval brick structure, St Nicholas Grove (EHER 5505)

A 0.7m length of Tudor brick walling was revealed by the erection of a wooden fence in a paddock at the north east end of St Nicholas Grove. Also observed were adjacent house-platforms and plot-boundaries observed.

A 0.7m length of Tudor brick walling was revealed by the erection of a wooden fence in a paddock at the north east end of St Nicholas Grove. On the south side, a moulded chamfered brick course was seen, cutting orange clay. On the north side was grey clay. This structure lay north east of a possible house platform (20m x 8m) and it may be a cess pit. The adjoining paddock to the east contained other possible earthworks. A rim sherd of a plate, in soft orange ware with a dark orange glaze, came from the topsoil and may date destruction to the early 17th-mid 18th centuries. 'As the parish church of St Nicholas was rebuilt in 1734 on a new site about 200m to the south west.. It may well be that the settlement pattern within the parish was reorganised in the 1730s more thoroughly than previously thought'. <1> <2> Finds in Chelmsford Museum. <3> See also <4>. Site Assessment: Accession numbers? No new information included from the NRHE data transfer.