[5] The first particle esking supposedly means an inhabitant of Assentoft,[6] but the creek seems later to have been named after a fulling mill (valkemølle), which in time, however, was used as gristmill.

[9] Probably also later a small round arched window was established on the northern side, and a steeple resting on five pillars[11] built into the nave[9] and with pyramid roof of lead[11] was added[12] above the southwestern corner of the church.

[18] Christen Skel Jørgensen bought September 7, 1678 "the church's share of the tithe of the mentioned parishes, the appurtenant easement over the parsonages and the smallholdings of the parish clerks and all of the churches' adjoining land estate and other appurtenant easement and the right of presentation" (Kirkens Andel af Tienden af de nævnte Sogne, Herligheden over Præstegaardene og Degnebolene og alt Kirkernes tilliggende Jordegods og anden Herlighed samt Kaldsretten) including e.g. Essenbæk Parish.

[21] When the art historian N. L. Høyen in 1830 visited Essenbæk Church, he drew e.g. its baptismal font.

[22] However, when in the summer of 1865 the architect Johannes Frederik (Frits) Christian Uldall[23] visited the church, there stood another baptismal font[24] – this one in Baroque style of wood,[25] and representing a kneeling figure bearing a basin.

[30] The Ministry for Ecclesiastical Affairs and Public Instruction, which mediated communication between the two parties,[27] estimated in 1866 that they could not agree,[30] but in October 1868 the construction of a new church was begun[24] in Assentoft.

It consists of a nave and chancel in one, internally separated by a round arched triumphal wall, and an apse towards east,[25] and towards west a 26.4 meters high steeple, including an octagonal spire, the sub-room of which it used as church porch.

[25] The granite baptismal font is from the Early Middle Ages and has Romanesque reliefs depicting heads on stakes, an Agnus Dei, a bird and two lions on the basin.

[31] After the new church was constructed in 1869, efforts were made to move the burial sites from the old churchyard to the new layout.

The new cemetery was then consecrated the morning after their reburial, 28 November 1872, by Bishop Brammer and the parish's priest Alfred Hjalmar Elmqvist.

It is decorated with a sandstone relief depicting half-figure portraits of Anne Nielsdatter and her husbands Rasmus Pedersen and Bertel Henningsen.

[26] Rasmus Pedersen had been the district bailiff of Essenbæk and Kristrup until his death in 1602, when he was succeeded by Henningsen.