There was a church here in 1086 when the Domesday survey was made but nothing is known about it. In 1141 Alice, widow of Aubrey de Vere who was killed in a riot in London, sought refuge in the Augustinian priory of St Osyth near Clacton, where her son William was a canon. In gratitude to the prior for providing her with sanctuary she gave it land at Denham which she had inherited as a portion of her marriage dowry. From this time until the dissolution of the priory by Henry VIII in 1539, Denham church belonged to St Osyth’s and was served by a chaplain from there.

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