Cressing Temple

It is an old landmark arranged amongst Witham and Braintree in Essex, near the towns of Cressing and White Notley. It was among the soonest and biggest of the belonging of the Knights Templar in England, and is presently open to the general population as a guest site. It is the area of three Grade I recorded Medieval horse shelters, one of which is the most established standing timber-surrounded outbuilding in the world. The house of Cressing was allowed to the Knights Templar in 1136 by Matilda of Boulogne, the spouse of King Stephen near the primary street amongst London and Colchester, and the street amongst Witham and Braintree.

The Templar domain got further gives not long after its establishing as the estate and half-hundred of Witham at some point in the vicinity of 1138 and 1148, in spite of the fact that the congregation of Witham, which had already been conceded to the congregation of St Martin's Le Grand in London, was not included. The Preceptory of Cressing was along these lines one of the soonest Templar homes in Englandand was put first in a definite rundown of Templar possessions in 1185.It was the biggest of their homes in Essex.

Afterward, King John affirmed to the Templars at Cressing the place that is known for Berecholt on 14 July 1199, and the place that is known for Newland on 8 June 1214, and also a market on Thursdays and a three-day-long reasonable at the devour of the Decollation of St. John the Baptist at the new town of Wulnesforde in the area of Witham. Afterward, at some point before his passing in 1255, the Templar Peter de Rossa conceded more than 100 sections of land of the house of Rivenhall to Cressing, a ward in which he was parson and ruler.