[4] It is a Grade II* listed building with a medieval core dating from the 12th century.

[5] A moated site near the church is a scheduled monument dating from the same period.

[6] The Catholic priest and martyr Henry Morse was born in the village in 1595.

Morse was venerated and beatified in December 1929 and in 1970 was made one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.

[7][8] John Wilbye (1574-1638), the famous English madrigalist, was born in Brome.