St James' Church, Bramley
Parish church
The parish church, Norman and Grade I listed, with medieval wall paintings inside.
About
St James' stands on The Street in the old centre of the village. It is a Norman church that has been added to since, with a west tower of 1636 that replaced a wooden one and an addition of 1802 designed by John Soane, and it is listed Grade I. What brings visitors is inside. In the 1870s the vicar, Charles Eddy, uncovered wall paintings and painted texts from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries that had been whitewashed over in 1550 and 1551. The earliest, on the south wall, show a series of martyrdoms, the best preserved being the murder of Thomas Becket in 1170, and on the north wall is a large sixteenth century St Christopher. The church is one of two in a benefice with St Leonard's at Sherfield on Loddon, and the church office is at Cross House on The Street.
What’s here
- Sunday services
- Grade I listed Norman parish church
- Medieval wall paintings, including the murder of Thomas Becket and a St Christopher
- Benefice with St Leonard's, Sherfield on Loddon
Venues and community places are listed as EveryVillage partners. We wrote this page ourselves, from information St James' Church, Bramley and others have published. Compiled 30 September 2026. Building, tower and listing from Historic England (list entry 1093029), which also gives the grid reference the map pin is placed from; the wall paintings from the church's published history as carried by the National Churches Trust; service times, the benefice and the church office line from the church's A Church Near You pages. The times were read from search results rather than the page itself, so check them. If you help run it, send us a correction or ask us to take the page down.