Bracewell is a small Dales village of stone cottages, west of Skipton and near Barnoldswick. The church has a nave with N aisle, S porch and W tower; a chancel and a vestry. There is a Norman S doorway and a chancel arch; the font is probably 13thc.

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Before the Conquest, Ulchil and Archil had 6 carucates for geld (VCH II, 290). After it, Roger the Poitevin had 6 carucates in Bracewell (VCH II, 306n). Notes in the church say there was a priest in Bracewell in 1135 and a chapel at Bracewell before 1147, but no sources are given.