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 Icing'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.