St James' church, Brassington, is of Norman origin, circa 1200.
"Church. Late C12, altered in C14, restored and north aisle added c1895. Squared coursed limestone with gritstone dressings. Slate roof with decorative ridge tiles. Western tower, nave and aisles, chancel with partial aisles. Heavily restored Norman tower with angle buttresses. C19 plate tracery window in former Norman doorcase on west wall. Above, 2-light window. Round-headed twin bell openings on all sides of tower. Embattled parapet above decorated stringcourse. North and south aisles have double or single C19 lancet windows. Northern clerestory windows C19 3-light cusped windows. East wall has rose window with plate tracery, hoodmould and carved stops. Also stone coped gable surmounded by cross. South aisles has two flat headed Perp windows. South porch has Norman arch with roll moulding and attached shafts. Fine early studded arched door. Interior - tall Norman arch to tower, imposts continued into stringcourse. South arcade, three circular C12 piers with scalloped and waterleaf capitals. Stepped soffits. North arcade,C19 circular polished limestone piers with carved capitals, round arches. C19 roof. From nave pointed moulded arch to chancel and lower ones into chancel aisles. South aisle of chancel has late Norman arcade with round headed arches springing from imposts to central polygonal column with waterleaf capital. Above Perp window. C19 glass to eastern window. Hatchment in tower of 1806."
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"BRASSINGTON, anciently Brazinctune, is a township, village, and parish, formed out of Bradbourne in 1886, 6 miles north from Ashborne, 4 west from Wirksworth terminal station, on the branch of the Midland railway and 5 south from Winster, in the Western division of the county, Bradbourne civil parish, Wirksworth hundred, petty sessional division and county court district, Ashborne union, rural deanery of Wirksworth, archdeaconry of Derby and diocese of Southwell. The High Peak line, belonging to the London and North Western railway, has a station at Longcliffe, used only as a goods station. The church of St. James, standing on an acclivity, is an ancient edifice of stone, chiefly in the Norman style, and was thoroughly restored and enlarged in 1881 at a cost of £2,000: it consists of chancel, nave with clerestory, aisles, south porch and a western embattled tower containing a clock and 3 bells, dating from 1677 to 1743: of the original Norman fabric there are extensive remains, particularly in the very narrow south aisle, with its three semicircular arches, supported on massive rounded pillars; and also in the south-aisle of the chancel, from which it is separated by two smaller Norman arches, the centre pillar being an octagon, with well-defined foliage, of the later Norman period. The clock, added in 1889, was presented by Mrs. Potts, of Manchester, in memory of her husband, at a cost of £100: the tower and font are Norman, and inside the west wall of the tower is a small stone rudely carved in high relief with the three-quarter figure of a man with one hand on his heart: the chancel has an almery on the south side and on the opposite wall is a quaint inscription on brass to Michael Adams B.D. of St. John’s College, Cambridge, and rector of Treeton, Yorks, who died here while on a journey, 27 Dec. 1680, and to his son who is buried with him: there are 250 sittings."
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