The brick and flint south front of St James’ Bramley, Hampshire with the large window if the Brocas chapel, which holds glass brought from Louvain in France during the French Revolution. The church has a clock tower, and a dormer window over the porch.

The font, ‘crudely carved’ (rude!) from Tournai marble. You can just see the staple in the stone where the cover used to be fastened to stop people (witches) stealing holy water.

Medieval wall paintings with Thomas Becket’s murder top right. The paintings were covered with whitewash c. 1550 after Henry VIII was getting irritable with the Pope etc. in the late 1530s.

Sir Bernard Brocas of Beaurepaire (died 1777) and his wife.

#churchproject Today @claudiusme.bsky.social and I went to St James’ in Bramley, which dates to 1160 and includes bits of Roman Calleva in the fabric. Plus it has medieval wall paintings (including a nice martyrdom of Thomas à Becket) a Norman font, and a marble memorial for Sir Bernard Brocas.

Someone just liked this post from earlier in the year (thanks!) and I thought I should maybe repost it.

#ChurchCrawlers #NorfolkChurches #ChurchProject

A small parish church with a square bell tower

A grave marker set in the floor of the nave. You can’t quite read all the test. It says … lyeth y Bo … … lizabeth ey Cornelius Py … … ho died Aug 1701

Stained glass window. At the bottom it says ‘In memory of Chetwynd Pigott 1877 - 1957’

St Martin’s church taken from the path, which has an avenue of pleached lime trees planted in 1897 for Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It’s March so no leaves on the trees.

#churchproject visit - St Martin’s church, Ellisfield, Hampshire. Originally 13th century, fully restored in 1870 when the bell tower was added. Grade II* listed.