Church of St Brise

The Church of St Brise is a Grade II* listed church constructed from local lias limestone rubble, topped with Welsh stone slate roofs. It features a nave with a west bell-cote and a south porch, along with a chancel. The central gabled porch on the south wall of the nave has a pointed arch with a hoodmould above it. Flanking the porch are two Tudor windows, each with 4-centred headed lights and hoodmoulds. The church has coped gables and a small square stone castellated bell-cote at the west end, while the chancel has a lower roofline. The south wall of the chancel includes a pointed arch priest’s door and another Tudor window similar to those on the nave. The east gable is coped and features double trefoiled lancets. The north nave wall is blind and mostly hidden by overhanging vegetation, as is the east gable.

Inside, the nave and chancel are simply whitewashed. The collar beam roofs have been reinforced with scarf repairs and replacement timber by William Weir, who also rebuilt the chancel arch in brick using his 'Weir sandwich' method, which involves courses of stone bonded by concrete bands. The church contains a Norman tub font with a rope mould and a fresco painting of the Royal Arms of William and Mary, which was later modified for George I by adding his initials and an early 18th-century date, although the heraldry remains unaltered. This painting overlays an earlier royal arms, though details of it are indistinct. There are several black-letter inscriptions, likely from the Elizabethan period, but they are heavily faded and have been replaced with texts dated 1654. The chancel features a double lancet east window with recesses at mid-height on either side, along with two 19th-century windows on the north wall and a south door. The altar rail was created by Philip Webb. An incised cross-slab is set within the floor of the sanctuary on the south side, and there are remains of a stair to the rood-loft against the north side of the chancel arch, which has a blocked doorway.