The Millenium saw the birth of a sign made in granite erected to welcome you to the village.

 Bramley Manor had been held under Edward the Confessor by Alvic but in1086 it belonged to Hugh de Port and remained in their possession until it passed to Constance the wife of John Paulet in 1428. The Paulets already held Basing and later the title Marquess of Winchester.

It was the the fifth Marquess that sold Bramley to Edward Pitt who was Lord of Stratfield Saye in 1642. Then in 1817 Stratfield Saye was bought by the nation and this included Bramley. It was bought for Arthur Wellesley, the first Duke of Wellington.

The church is world famous for its murals, one actually depicts the murder of Thomas à Becket and is thought to have been completed around 50 years after the actual murder. The stain glass comes from the 14th and 16th centuries and the south transept glass was buried in the moat of Beaurepaire House and saved during the Civil War. This ancient house belonged to the Brocas family.

Another of the murals is a 15th century one of St Christopher, the patron saint of travellers and though this has nearly faded away there is a photo of it on display to show what it was like and if you look carefully at the painting m small fishes and a couple of mermaids can be see in the stream. There are also two more pictures that are decorated with flower and are reckoned to be from the 13th century and shows a bearded man with a stick and a Madonna with her child on her knee.

In the chancel Thomas Shaw is depicted as he was a vicar here in 1751 and as well as being a chaplain of  and English factory in Algiers he journeyed to Carthage and Palestine collecting antiquities and plants and rumour has it that he was accompanied by four companies of Turkish soldiers who were to protect him and his caravan from local bandits.

And NO the famous Bramley apple never got its name from this village Though some people say it did and it was first propagated by a vicar of the village.
The first Bramley tree grew from pips planted by a young girl, Mary Ann Brailsford, in her garden in Southwell, Nottinghamshire, circa 1809.

A local butcher, Matthew Bramley, bought the cottage and garden in 1846 and it was while he lived there in 1856 that a local nurseryman, Henry Merryweather, asked if he could take graftings from the tree and start to sell the apple.

Bramley agreed, provided he called the apple 'Bramley seedling'. And the original tree still bears fruit today.

The home of the Vaughan family is The Manor House which is a 16th century building (Circa 1546) and they have lived there for 18 years, it is steeped in history and is a member of the Historic Houses Association and considered to be one of the finest examples of a Hearth Passage Elizabethan Manor in Hampshire

Some views of the wall paintings, bottom left shows the bearded man with the stick

A group of panels show Gideon and the Fleece, David and Goliath, Naaman in the River Jordan, the birth of Madonna and other famous characters and several smaller panels portray the Creation, and below the other three panels can be seen the Holy Family, Noah and the Madonna and child.

There are also 16th century brass portrains of Richard and Alys Carter and of Gwen Shelford on the chapel floor and a glass cabinet on the wall show some Roman tiles which were found when a window was being restored in the chancel. Other tiles from mediaeval period and pieces of alabaster and a piece of oak from the Norman foundations of Winchester cathedral are also on display here.

	In the chapel there is an 18th century monument made from marble of Sir Bernard Brocas and made by Thomas Banks. This monument seemed to appeal to Mary Russel Mitford when she visited  Bramley. It depicts Sir Bernard laying in the arms of a lady who is struggling to hold him up.	I

Detail on the end panel of the Brocas memorial

SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF BERNARD BROCAS, WHO AFTER EIGHT YEARS SEVERE SUFFERING BORNE WITH PATIENT RESIGNATION TO THE DIVINE WILL. DEPARTED THIS LIFE AT SORRENTO. ON THE 5th JULY 1839, IN THE 38th YEAR OF HIS AGE

The chancel is 13th century and  a "shaft piscina" can be seen. The altar rails are 17th century and there are some 16th century benches, a pulpit built in the 18th century and a Norman font with a wooden cover. The gallery stands on pillars and is panelled and there is a window in the roof to shed light on the rood and mass dials can be seen on the walls

The church has a redbrick tower that is around 300 years old and it is entered by a 15th century doorway which has hinges that are even older.
The Altar showing the icons		Some of the coats of arms
The interior of the church		The floor of the church
The Font		The Organ on the balconey
One of the two weather vanes		The church has two dormer windows in its roof