St Nicholas, North Bradley, Wiltshire

Description

The church of St. Nicholas is a building of stone in the Perpendicular style, and consists of chancel, nave of six bays, transepts, aisles, south porch and an embattled western tower, containing 6 bells, rehung in 1894, at a cost of £200: the east and west windows and two others are stained, and there are monuments to Elizabeth, 2nd wife of Sir Humphrey Stafford, d. 1446, and mother of John Stafford, Bishop of Bath and Wells, 1425-43, and Archbishop of Canterbury, 1443-52, and a mural monument to John Trenchard, a political writer (d. 17 Dec. 1723), and several to the Long family, including Henry Long, 1727, Ellen Long, 1752, and Wm. Long, 1773: the church was restored about 1803 at a cost of nearly £2,000, and affords 278 sittings.

Church Records

The parish register dates from the year 1641.