Brandon Church is called St. Peter’s with its beginnings in the 13th Century. It is constructed using a lot of locally sourced Flint but surprisingly, for a town known the world over for its flintknapping skills, much of it is in poor condition.
Most of the exterior of the building is of unknapped flint or random flint rubble. The two polygonal towers at the east end have flints broken in two to expose two faces but there is no further knapping as the cortex still remains.
There is some galletting (small pieces of flint or stone inserted into the mortar between the larger flints) in the flint work on the towers.
Some ashlar (cut and dressed stone) in the building & pieces of some old stone coffins built into the walls of the tower are believed to be more than 1000 years old.
Take a tour around the church and discover its secrets by clicking through the photo gallery below
We are indebted to Michael Willett & Carol Palfreyman for the Church Survey and Photography