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A tall stone church tower rises above trees and a long brick wall, with two cyclists and a horse-drawn cart on the road.

St Mary, Brampton c.1905 (Norris Museum)

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton

History of St Mary

Listed Building

Parish church, mentioned in Domesday Survey, 1086, but the chancel is C13 and the nave, north and south aisles are C16. The west tower was built in 1635. The arcading in the chancel and the choir stalls and misericords are noteworthy. Four stage west tower, dated 1635 on stone panel. Limestone ashlar.

St Mary’s church appears in the diary of Samuel Pepys. There is a memorial to Pepys’s sister Paulina Jackson who died in 1689. The church was mainly build in the 14th and 15th centuries.

A stone church tower with a large square clock, arched window, and an open doorway featuring a Church Open sign on the ground.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

The interior of St Mary Magdalene church, featuring a central red aisle, wooden pews, stone arches, and a stained glass window.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass depicting a woman in a white headscarf and red robe playing a small organ, with a scroll inscribed Saint Cecilia.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass window panel depicting the Nativity, with figures of Mary, Joseph, angels, and the infant Jesus in a manger.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass panel showing four figures including a child and three men in robes, beneath star-filled night sky panels.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Two tall stained glass windows in a church depict biblical scenes with figures in colourful robes beneath decorative arches.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass window depicting a soldier by a wayside crucifix in a battlefield, framed by a wreath with a text panel below.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass depicts a robed figure holding a chalice before kneeling soldiers in a wreath, with a text panel below.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass showing General Allenby entering Jerusalem inside a laurel wreath, with an inscribed plaque below the panel.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

A stained glass panel featuring black-letter text commemorating men of Brampton who died in the Great War, dated MCMXIX.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Stained glass panel depicting the Nativity, with figures surrounding a central infant and a dedicated inscription at the base.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

Two arched, carved wooden fragments are mounted on a white wall above a pointed wooden door with glass-paned panels.

St Mary Magdalene, Brampton (RGL2025)

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