TILLINGHAM
KELLY'S DIRECTORY OF ESSEX 1933
TILLINGHAM is a parish and a large and pleasant village, 4 miles north-east from Southminster terminal station on the Southend section of the London and North Eastern railway, 7 miles north-east-by-north from Burnham and 14 east-south-east from Maldon, in the Maldon division of the county, Dengie hundred and petty sessional division, Maldon rural district and county court district, and in the rural deanery of Dengie, archdeaconry of Southend and Chelmsford diocese: the Village is about 3 miles from the North Sea, but the parish extends to its borders. The church of St. Nicholas, which stands in a fine open space in the centre of the village, is an ancient building of stone in the Early English and Perpendicular styles, and was repaired in 1708 by a rate on the inhabitants; the south aisle was rebuilt in 1866, and in 1891 the church underwent a complete restoration; it consists of 12th century chancel, nave of four bays, south aisle, porch and an embattles 12th century tower at the west end containing a clock with chimes, placed in 1887, and 6 bells, the second about 1515, third about 1460 (neither dated), others, 1684, 1707 and 1684: the peal was refitted and rehung and a sixth bell added in 1889; the tower was much damaged by lightning towards the close of the 18th century, but in 1888 was completely restored and its stair-turret rebuilt: the piscina and sedilia are still intact, and the font is a good example of early work: the doorway on the north side is mainly 11th century Norman: there is a brass to Edward Wiot esq. ob. July ,1584, with a Latin verse; and one to John Wakeman, ob. 1584; there are several stained windows, one to the late Canon Liddon D.D. chancellor of St. Paul's; one to Humphrey Cole, vicar here 1588-1624, one to Mrs. Emma Miller, wife of the Rev. W. C. Miller, vicar 1879-1914: there is a tablet to parishioners who fell in the Great War, 1914-1918: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1562. The living is a vicarage, net yearly value £434, with residence in the gift of the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, and held since 1915 by the Rev. Charles Graham Gardner M.A. of Oxford University. The rectorial commuted rent-charge amounts to £797 17s., net £547, which, together with about £1,000 a year derived from lands in the parish, belongs to the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's and is applied, after deducting a grant to ten poor livings in the county, to the repair of the cathedral. There is a Congregational chapel, and a place of worship for the Peculiar People. The parish hall was built in 1927 at a cost of about £600, and seats 200. The charities, amounting to about £16 yearly, chiefly derived from land, bequeathed in the year 1652 by Col. Gregory Baker, a distinguished Royalist, are distributed to the poor; there are also almshouses endowed with £20 a year, founded by the same benefactor for four poor people. The manor and tithes of this place were given by Ethelbert, Bretwalda of England and King of Kent (550-616). to the Cathedral of St. Paul. The Ecclesiastical Commissioners are lords of the manor, and the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, trustees of the late Robert George Brown esq. George Raby esq. J.P., C.A. and Wilfred Douglas-Brown esq. are the principal landowners. The village was much improved by the erection, in 1881, of some picturesque cottages by the Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's who previously purchased and removed, at a considerable outlay, several dilapidated tenements. There is much land here formerly marsh, but now drained and under cultivation. The soil is various; subsoil, gravel and rich loam. The crops are wheat, peas, beans, barley, oats, turnips and mangold wurtzel, and on the land near the sea, white mustard, coriander and caraway seeds are grown. The area is 4,920 acres of land, 7 of inland water and 3,200 of foreshore; the population in 1931 was 670 in the civil and of the ecclesiastical parish in 1921, 826.
Post, M. O., T. & T. E. D. Office. Letters received through Southminster, Essex
Clerk to Tillingham, Asheldham & Dengie Parish Councils & Bailiff to the Lords of the Manor, Hugh Stokes Hart, North street stores
Conveyance.--Motor Omnibus service to Maldon, Southminster, Bradwell-on-Sea & Burnham, daily
Email Essex Pubs at: EssexPubmail