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.

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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.