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Brinkley ChurchYou are very welcome to visit Brinkley Church.
Services are held on Sundays as listed in the village newsletter Village Voice which you will find elsewhere on this website. For pastoral enquiries, please contact: Churchwarden John Robertson 01638 507484 www.raddesley.com
History The present Church of St Mary was built during the Perpendicular period, probably in 16th or 17th Century and still retains the original tower with its fine perpendicular arch, and a very beautiful East window which poses quite a mystery. Commenting on the stained glass at the top of this window which is medieval, Nikolaus Pevsner in his Cambridgeshire volume of Buildings of England refers to it as ‘so typical of c1300 and so unlikely for a High Victorian architect that it must be accurate’.(Indicating that the Victorian architect who restored the Church in 1875, and replaced all the other windows, did not design this East window.) The window appears, too, in the drawing of Brinkley Church by William Cole who carried out a very complete survey of Churches in Cambridgeshire in 1750; this proves that the window was there before the restoration of the church. Nikolaus Pevsner draws particular attention to the brickbuilt South porch, claiming it to be the only one in the County. The North window of the Chancel contains a jumble of fragments of pieces of 14th century stained glass. The pulpit is probably 18th Century with Jacobaen panels, similar to those in the squire’s pew. At one time there was a ceiling with carved main beams but these appear to have been removed in 1874 and used to support the floor of the Nave pews.
2017-Nicola Antoinette Mann Brinkley Churchyard There have been a couple surveys done of the gravestones in the churchyard, one by Cambridgeshire Family History Society in 1983 and a second in May 2007 by a local and updated in 2016. For general enquiries please contact a member of the PCC via the Village Voice e-mail on villagevoicenewsletter@btinternet.com
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