Grotesquely frightening

This is one of the 'grotesques' that you will find acting as a pillar-stop in the Lady Chapel at Bradeley Church.
Its job is to scare off evil spirits.  It sure frightens me.

Simply a megalith for virgins

A simple stone, all on its own, decorating the entrance to a household drive...?  So it appears.
But the truth is never as simple as it looks. Around this ordinary-looking boulder weaves a web of legend.

This mysterious 'Webb Stone' in Bradley has many legends associated with it, mostly to do with virgins and livestock (aren't they all??).  It is even said to spin round occasionally - giving it its other title of The Wanderer -, though no one has lived to report a sighting of such.
Its 'proper' history indicates that it may (or may not) have come from a local, ancient stone-circle, now dispersed, or perhaps was a Saxon boundary stone. There are certainly other similar stones (all glacial boulders) to be seen elsewhere in this village.

Rather incongruously, it sits forlornly by the side of the road, unlabelled. Though... unmoved.

Eternal face-off at Bradley

Bradley Church is pretty perfect for the 'church-crawler', ie someone who enjoys musing on the ancient heritage & art that can be found in many historic churches.
One piece that draws the eye in Bradley is the seventeenth century wall monument by the door, where Sir Thomas Browne and his wife now face each other for eternity.

I was intrigued by the chevron etched into the wall between them, though there is no explanation for it that I could see.  The chevron is one of the heraldic symbols of Staffordshire county.

Sign of old-fashioned times

Bradley is a posh, attractive, hidden-away little village (but with some memorable sights); and is almost purposefully timeless...    So much so that it seems to have deliberately retained its old-fashioned black-and-white signposts - ones with the scrolled edges on the 'fingers' themselves.
This type of post has largely disappeared elsewhere now, to be replaced by 'sturdier' metal signs.