Great Tey

St Barnabas, Great Tey

TEY (GREAT), a parish in the Witham division of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX, 4 miles (N E by E) from Great Coggeshall, containing 625 inhabitants. The living is a discharged vicarage, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, rated in the king’s books at £7, endowed with £200 private benefaction, and £200 royal bounty, and in the patronage of the Rector. The rectory is a sinecure, rated at £18, and in the patronage of G B Tyndale, Esq. The church, dedicated to St Barnabas, exhibits in the interior some columns of the Tuscan order, and has a large square tower rising from the centre.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)


Great Tey Baptisms DP 37-1-1 1559-1652

Great Tey Baptisms DP 37-1-2 1652-1664

Great Tey Baptisms DP 37-1-3 1665-1704

Great Tey Baptisms DP 37-1-5 1704-1753

Great Tey Baptisms DP 37-1-2 1749-1765

Great Tey Burials DP 37-1-1 1560-1668

Great Tey Burials DP 37-1-3 1665-1714

Great Tey Burials DP 37-1-4 1678-1714

Great Tey Burials DP 37-1-2 1714-1765

Great Tey Marriages DP 37-1-1 1559-1648

Great Tey Marriages DP 37-1-2 1654-1655

Great Tey Marriages DP 37-1-3 1665-1754

Further registers for Great Tey are included in the FreeREG database.


  • Great Tey was part of the Lexden Hundred
  • history of Great Tey