Crossword-Solution: TILTY 5 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

The churches of South Weald, Hadleigh, Blackmore, Heybridge and Hadstock may be mentioned as containing Norman work; with the church of Castle Hedingham for its fine Transitional work; Southchurch, Danbury and Boreham as being partly Early English; Ingatestone, Stebbing and Tilty for specimens of Decorated architecture; and Messing, Thaxted, Saffron Walden, and the church of St Peter ad Vincula at the small town of Coggeshall, near Colchester, as specimens of Perpendicular.

SUBTILE, sub'til, _adj._ delicately constructed: fine: thin or rare: piercing: shrewd.--_adv._ SUB'TILELY.--_ns._ SUB'TILENESS; SUBTILIS[=A]'TION.--_v.t._ SUB'TILISE, to make subtile, thin, or rare: to spin into niceties.--_v.i._ to make nice distinctions: to refine in argument.--_ns._ SUB'TILISM, the quality of being subtile; SUB'TILTY, state or quality of being subtile: fineness: extreme acuteness: cunning.

Further examples which give colour to this view might be cited, such as the chancel which the Cistercians of Tilty, near Dunmow, added to their church, as the beginning of a complete rebuilding, about the beginning of the fourteenth century.