This photograph shows the importance of the May Day celebrations in the cultural life of this village. This was a very old custom whose origins are believed to be pagan ...
The Map
This map was almost certainly commissioned by Ralph Sheldon (1537-1613), the coat of arms. It can be dated to the period 1580 to 1613.
Aesthetics Or Function?
The map’s unusual decorative ...
No records have come to light about the beginnings of Primitive Methodism in Brailes in Warwickshire. The Rev. Joseph Preston “missioned” Chacombe, near Banbury, about 1830 and the work prospered ...
The 1851 Census showed that the existing chapel was too small for the growing congregation, but the local landowners were unsympathetic to the needs of the Primitive Methodists. The Circuit ...
In 1932, Brailes Primitive Methodist Chapel became part of the Banbury Circuit of the Methodist Church. In Lower Brailes, the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel also became part of the Methodist Church ...
National Children’s Day is celebrated in May, and an appropriate topic with a Warwickshire link is this letter, which was sent by Mr. J. H. Long to the minister of ...