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A stone church with a crenellated tower and slate roof stands behind a churchyard path marked by a carved wooden owl sculpture.

St Mary’s Brinkley IRGL 2022)

St Mary, Brinkley

History of St Mary, Brinkley

Listed Building:

GV II* Parish church, chancel C13, nave, aisles and tower C14. Clerestorey, walls of aisles and chancel largely rebuilt in 1874 restoration (see vestry report). Architect F. Thompson. Flint, pebble and clunch rubble walls originally plastered, knapped flint restored walls and plinth band to tower. Reused, limestone, clunch and C19 Ketton limestone dressings. C15 red brick porch, originally plastered and red brick repairs. Slate roofs.

https://camchurch.druidic.org/churches/brinkley.htm

A stone relief featuring a skull and bones is set into a wall made of flint and red brick at St Mary's Church, Brinkley.

St Mary’s Brinkley IRGL 2022) churchyard gate

A stone altar sits below a large, arched window with diamond-patterned leaded glass and decorative red-glass accents.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

Stained glass inserts set within stone tracery depicting small figures in robes against red backgrounds beneath a quatrefoil.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A dark rectangular stone plaque with engraved white lettering commemorating Geoffrey Langdon Keynes and Margaret Elizabeth Darwin.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

Memorial stone to Margaret Elizabeth Keynes née Darwin

A printed document lists Rectors of Brinkley in two columns, showing their names alongside dates of service from 1260 to 2021.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A black memorial tablet with arched top mounted on a white wall, inscribed in white lettering in memory of Gilbert Symonds.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

Black memorial board with arched top mounted on a white wall, featuring painted white 18th-century English text.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A printed document in a red frame listing Brinkley men who died in the First World War, with a small photograph of a church.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A stone memorial plaque on a dark background lists the names of men from Brinkley who died in the First World War.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022)

A white and timber-framed house stands next to a flint wall in a grassy churchyard with several weathered headstones.

St Mary’s Brinkley (RGL 2022) church yard

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