Ely Diocesan Association
of Church Bell Ringers
Church Tour
The Blessed Virgin Saint Mary Church in brinkley is an attractive small
village church. It is worth a visit, and hopefully the authoritative abstracts
below will entice you. A more up to date review can be found at:
http://www.druidic.org/camchurch/churches/brinkley.htm
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| St. Mary's Church, brinkley |
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St Mary. Perp and C19, flint-built. W tower Perp flush-work decoration at the
base. Perp brick porch - a rarity in Cambridgeshire, but frequent in Essex. Chancel
rebuilt in 1874, but the four-light E window so typical of C.1300 and so unlikely
for a High Victorian architect that it must be accurate. It appears indeed in Cole's
drawing (B.MAdd.5820). It has a quaterfoiled circle and two-light lancet arches flanking
it, with pointed quarterfoil cusping in the spandrels of the two arches, cf. St Etheldreda
, Ely Place, London the chapel of Bishops of Ely. Perp our-bay arcade with octagonal
piers and double-chamfered arches. Perp tower arch. - PULPIT. Jacobean. -PEW in the
NE corner, with Jacobean panels. - Plain later PEWS in the SE, NW, and SW arms too.
- STAINED GLASS. Two small C14 angels in the E window and other bits in the chancel.
[The Buildings of England, Cambridgeshire. Nikolaus Pevsner Second Edition 1970] |
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brinkley is a village and parish, 3 miles south from Dullingham station on the Cambridge and Bury branch of the London and North Eastern railway and south-south-west from Newmarket, in the hundred of Radfield, Newmarket union and county court district, rural deanery of Cheveley, archdeaconry and diocese of Ely. The church of the Blessed Virgin, restored in 1874 by the rector and parishioners at an expense of about £1,000, is a building of flint, consisting of chancel, nave, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower containing 6 bells; the chancel and nave are Decorated and the tower Perpendicular: there are 200 sittings. The register dates from the year 1685.
The soil is boulder clay. The chief crops are wheat, beans, barley and oats. The
area is 1,303 acres; the population in 1921 was 242. By an Order which came into
operation March 25. 1886, a detached part of this parish was amalgamated with
Carlton, in Linton union.
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