Brinsop
Coordinates: 52°03′N 2°29′W / 52.05°N 2.48°W Brinsop is a small hamlet 6 miles north-west of Hereford, England: it has a uniquely well-preserved medieval church. The civil parish is called Brinsop and Wormsley. At the 2011 census it had a population of 131.
A small, but historic church set in characteristically wooded Herefordshire dell. Unfortunately most of the redsand stonework has been looted, still the original carved tympanum (similar to Kilpeck) dates from circa 1150–60 depicts St George on horseback, a knight crusader slaying a serpent-dragon, since before the construction of Brinsop Court. Typical of the Herefordshire much of its motifs are of fabulous creatures, some mythical. It borrowed heavily from Normandy for influences, probably Parthenay-le-Vieux, Poitou. But the voussoirs is similar to that at Shobdon within a sequence of zodiacal beasts.
There are two coffin lids in the church with foliated crosses. The early 14th century church of St George's has a single nave and chancel with an arcade of two bays and double-chamfered arches have a date of c1320, and two bays were added c. 1333–40. The north aisle was probably built after 1300 with Dec windows which have been isolated to date 1330–40, the church's original foundation was probably older. There are south facing windows with Y-tracery. Medieval wall paintings of 1300 of the south wall showing the Feast of the Annuniciation, the Visitation of the Angel Gabriel, and the Crucifixion of Christ are from early fourteenth century. The stoup is 15th century. The local medieval gentry were the Dansey family celebrated in the church; a tablet of William Dansey (d.1708) survives by Edward Stanton with large Corinthian pilasters and two putti. On the west wall is an even earlier stone inscription to William Dansey, 1628. More recent achaeological work has established that a medieval rampart existed to the south-east beyond the moat where a small pond was dug in 1969.
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