Parish Church Of West Bradley

The Parish Church of West Bradley is an Anglican parish church, primarily dating from the 14th and 15th centuries, with significant restoration in the 19th century, especially in the chancel. It is constructed from coursed and squared lias rubble, featuring slate and asbestos slate roofs, and has coped verges with cruciform finials. The church comprises a nave, a chancel with an organ loft to the north, a south porch, and a west tower designed in the Perpendicular style.

The tower is unbuttressed and consists of two stages, with a moulded string at its base. It has two-light bell chamber windows, an embattled parapet, and a pyramid roof topped with a cruciform finial. The west elevation includes a two-light window, a west door, and a shallow stair turret on the north side with a single narrow window. The nave has two bays, with an ashlar parapet on the north and south sides featuring moulded coping and two-light traceried windows, some of which have renewed tracery. The porch is buttressed and has an elaborately moulded surround to the outer door opening, next to a plain stoup and paired 19th-century inner doors with surface tracery; the north doorway is blocked.

The chancel has two bays and has been largely rebuilt, featuring two-light square-headed windows and a priest's door. There is a shallow stair turret on the north side leading to a former rood loft, and a lancet window with a foiled head. The interior is plastered, with a flagstone and encaustic tile floor. The walls under the tower have been scraped, and the tower features a star-vault. The nave has a king post and tie beam roof, while the chancel has an unceiled wagon roof. The tower arch is single shafted, and the chancel arch displays typical Perpendicular moulding. Notable interior features include a Norman tub font under the tower, a semi-circular headed piscina next to a 13th-century moulded corbel, a tablet commemorating Danil Avery from 1530 in the nave, and another tablet from 1812 by T King in the chancel. The church contains plain 19th-century pews, choir stalls, and a pulpit.