Bramley,  Hampshire  -  St James Church
12th-19th Centuries

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Notes in italics from Hampshire and the Isle of Wight by Nikolaus Pevsner and David Lloyd (1967)
Yale University Press, New Haven and London

Externally the church has as its interesting features one complete, one renewed, and one fragmentary Norman window (all on north side). ... Squat W tower of brick, dateable to 1636, with a (re-set?) W window and bell openings like the Elizabethan nave window (between) the late C18 S porch and the S transept (Brocas Chapel) which is by Soane and was built in 1801. 

Nave and chancel with Perpendicular east window. Paintings in the chancel: C13 masonry pattern with addorsed flowers on stalks. Also, N of the altar, large over-restored St James ... There is no division at all between nave and chancel - except for the ceilure or rood canopy ... This is ceiled and has bosses in the junctions between the square panels. It was made in 1539-41.
West gallery. Early C18. On fluted Ionic columns. 

Painting. In the nave Murder of Becket, C13. Over restored. To its r. another scene. More scenes were below. - Opposite the nave S door St Christopher, huge, C15. Continuous rolls on the Norman windows.

South transept (Brocas Chapel). It has a depressed pointed tunnel-vault of plaster with thin transverse ribs and diagonal ribs and additional ribs of tierceron resemblance, but archaeologically completely misunderstood.