St Michael's Hall

St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray

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Overview

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136012
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1955
List Entry Name:: St Michael's Hall
Statutory Address:: St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray

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Date:: 2001-05-22
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Official list entry

Heritage Category:: Listed Building
Grade:: II
List Entry Number:: 1136012
Date first listed:: 25-Mar-1955
Date of most recent amendment:: 02-May-1989
List Entry Name:: St Michael's Hall
Statutory Address 1:: St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray

This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

Unless the List entry states otherwise, it includes both the structure itself and any object or structure fixed to it (whether inside or outside) as well as any object or structure within the curtilage of the building.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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This List entry helps identify the building designated at this address for its special architectural or historic interest.

For these purposes, to be included within the curtilage of the building, the object or structure must have formed part of the land since before 1st July 1948.

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Location

Statutory Address:: St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray

The building or site itself may lie within the boundary of more than one authority.

District:: Windsor and Maidenhead (Unitary Authority)
Parish:: Bray
National Grid Reference:: SU9017079732

Details

SU 9079 22/6

BRAY CHURCH LANE (north side, off) St Michael's Hall

(Formerly listed as the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin)

25.3.55

G.V. II

Chantry chapel of St Mary the Virgin, now church meeting rooms. Probably dates from late C13, altered early C17, restored C19. Flint and Bath stone with old tile gabled roof. Long rectangular plan. One storey. Small ridge chimney with clay pots. Two-stage angled buttresses at each corner. South front: irregular. Two square-headed doorways with restored stone dressings; the westernmost has an early C17 panelled door. Between the doorways is a lancet window with C19 stonework. Set between the western doorway and the window is a sculptured stone with the figure of a bull. The east and west gable ends have C19, three-light plate traceried windows with pointed heads.

Interior: divided into two rooms of unequal size, when the building was turned into a schoolhouse in the early C17, by a brick chimney stack with two fireplaces back to back. wooden barrel roof, boarded over with moulded wooden cornice at wall plate level.

Listing NGR: SU9017079732

Legacy

The contents of this record have been generated from a legacy data system.

Legacy System number:: 41025
Legacy System:: LBS

Sources

Books and journals
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 109
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 100
Websites
British Geological Survey, Strategic Stone Study, accessed 04/02/2020 from https://www.bgs.ac.uk/mineralsuk/buildingStones/StrategicStoneStudy/EH_atlases.html

Legal

This building is listed under the Planning (Listed Buildings and Conservation Areas) Act 1990 as amended for its special architectural or historic interest.