Listed Building record MDR2757 - All Saints' Church, Church Lane, Brailsford

All Saints' Church, Church Lane, Brailsford, originally a 12th century building. 'The parish church of Brailsford stands on high ground in a solitary position about half a mile or more from the village, but the explanation of its position is not the disappearance of the village that once surrounded it. The Domesday Survey records 'a priest and half a church' at the manor of Brailsford, with the other half being on the adjacent manor of Ednaston, which belonged to a different lord. The church therefore appears to have been built halfway between the two villages for their joint use. The church consists of a nave, south aisle, porch, chancel and fine western tower. The plan of the church was obviously on a larger scale in the time of Norman architecture, for the tower has been built within the most western bay of the older building. This accounts for a number of features, including the aisle being longer than the nave. The chancel is a good example of Decorated architecture of c1300-1320, while the body of the church was substantially restored or rebuilt at the same date as the chancel. The windows of the south aisle and nave are probably 15th century while the tower is of c1500. The roof, entrance and upper portion of the walls of the porch were rebuilt in 1629.' (1) 'The church is recorded as being in normal use in 1966.' (2) 'The Church of All Saints at Brailsford is a Grade I listed building of the 12th, 14th and 15th centuries and was restored in 1629. It is constructed of coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings and has Welsh slate and lead roofs. There is a west tower, a nave with a south aisle, and a long chancel with a north vestry.' (3) From the National Heritage List for England: 'SK 24 SW 5/1 PARISH OF BRAILSFORD CHURCH LANE Church of All Saints 13.09.67 GV I Parish church. C12, C14, C15, 1629. Coursed squared sandstone with sandstone dressings. Welsh slate and lead roofs. West tower, nave with south aisle, long chancel with north vestry. Tower of two unequal stages, divided by a string course. Diagonal buttresses with five set-offs. Battlemented parapet. Projecting staircase wall to north. West door with Perpendicular mouldings, flanked by C18 war memorials.Three-light window above with plain arched lights and Perpendicular tracery. Small square opening above, repeated on north and south sides. Two-light bell openings to each face with arched lights beneath Y-tracery. South side of tower embraced by south aisle which has a two-light west window under a flat head, with cusped lights and mouchettes. Gabled south porch with broad chamfered round arch with a stone above inscribed WM 1629. Sundial above. To the right are two two-light windows with flat-heads and C19 Decorated style tracery, but genuine C14 mullions. Buttress with two set-offs and similar diagonal buttresses at the angles. String course and plain parapet. Three-light east window with Decorated tracery with cusped mouchettes. Three rectangular clerestory windows and a string and plain parapet above with a sundial. The south side of the chancel has three two-light windows with C19 tracery of two lancet lights with a quatrefoil above. Priests doorway between the first two windows from the west. Two string courses above and a plain parapet. The east wall has angle buttresses and a three-light window with early C14 tracery. The north side of the chancel has a C19 lean-to vestry with simple pointed arched doorway to the east and a paired lancet window to the north. To the right, a two-light window similar to those on the south side, but possibly with genuine early C14 tracery. The north side of the nave has two buttresses and two two-light windows with flat heads and cusped lights. Doorway to the right with wave moulding. INTERIOR: has a four bay south arcade, the fourth bay now against the side of the tower, showing that the tower was built within the Norman nave. The west pier is circular with a scalloped capital, the next circular with octagonal capital, the third has an octagonal pier and capital, and at the east end there is a semicircular respond with polygonal capital. The round arches have a step and a chamfer. Double-chamfered tower arch. Early C14 chancel arch, supported to the north on a free standing circular C12 pier with many scalloped capital. Early C14 triple sedilia and piscina with deep fluted drain, in the south wall of the chancel. A number of wall monuments - Edward Cox died 1846 (nave north), Annie Mosse died 1868 (nave north), Mary Horsfall died 1862 (nave north), Thomas Cox died 1842 (chancel north) gothic, John Boden died 1840 (chancel south), Anna Palmer died 1840 (chancel south), all by Hall of Derby. William Cox died 1900 (nave north) by Lomas of Derby. Roger and Frances Cox died 1843 and 1853 (nave north) by J.B Robinson of Derby: Dorothy Draper died 1683 (chancel east) Jacobean style. To the left of the east window is a grander, late C17 monument. The reredos has re-set linenfold panels and flamboyant tracery panels. C17 communion table and C17 or earlier oak chest. Tomb recess in the chancel north wall with an incorrectly assembled monument set in. C19 tiled chancel floor. Carved rood beam and cross of 1934. Deeply carved bench ends in the nave, one dated 1884. In the south aisle are an C18 charity board, four boards with religious texts and a royal coat of arms. Octagonal font, probably C16. Listing NGR: SK2449041278.' (5)