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.

Memorial stone to Margaret Elizabeth Keynes née Darwin

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4 July 1952

For over 50 years Arthur Hart has been organist at the Brinkley parish church, which the Bishop of Ely described as “a magnificent record”. Mr Hart said that long service was not unusual. Mr Missen had been a member of the choir for 33 years, and before that a member of the church for 22 years. The Rector said the 100-year-old organ was a museum piece: “I don’t believe there is another organ in the whole of England like it, but no one could play it like Mr Hart. During his long period as organist nothing has had to be done to it”. — Mike Petty, Brinkley Scrapbook 1897 to 1990, p. 4.