St Michael's Hall
St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray
Listed on the National Heritage List for England. Search over 400,000 listed places
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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- 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
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
The scope of legal protection for listed buildings
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.
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
Pevsner, N, The Buildings of England: Berkshire, (1966), 100
Ditchfield, P H, Page, W, The Victoria History of the County of Berkshire, (1906), 109
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.
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