Hampshire Treasures

Volume 2 ( Basingstoke and Deane)

Page 55 - Bramley

Bramley manor had been held under Edward the Confessor by Alvic, but in 1086 belonged to the great Hampshire landowner Hugh de Port. It continued in the possession of the de Ports and their successors until 1428 when it passed to Constance, wife of John Paulet. The Paulets also held Basing and later held the title Marquess of Winchester. The Fifth Marquess sold Bramley to Edward Pitt, Lord of Stratfieldsaye in 1642. In 1817 the nation purchased Stratfieldsaye, and with it Bramley, for Arthur Wellesley, first Duke of Wellington.

The church interior has world famous murals, one of which depicts the murder of Thomas à Becket and is estimated to have been painted within fifty years of the event. The stained glass dates from the mid fourteenth century in the north window, and sixteenth century glass in the south transept was saved in the Civil War by being buried in the moat of Beaurepaire House, the ancient home of the Brocas family.

The well-known species of apple known as Bramley was first propagated by a vicar of Bramley and so called after its place of origin.

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