St Michael's Church, Bray

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St Michael's Church, Bray
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St Michael's Church, Bray
51°30′32.56″N0°42′07.07″W / 51.5090444°N 0.7019639°W / 51.5090444; -0.7019639
OS grid reference SU 90169 79704
Location Bray, Berkshire
Country England
Denomination Church of England
Website braystmichael.co.uk
Administration
Archdeaconry Berkshire
Deanery Maidenhead and Windsor
Parish Bray and Braywood

St Michael's Church, Bray, is a Grade II* listed parish church [1] in the Church of England in Bray, Berkshire.

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History

The church dates from 1293, supposedly to replace a Saxon church at Water Oakley. [2]

It was partly rebuilt ca. 1500 and extensively restored 1857–82 by Thomas Henry Wyatt.

It has a number of sculptures which may have come from the earlier church, including a damaged Sheela na Gig.

The ecclesiastical parish shares the wider parish boundaries so is named Bray St Michael with Braywoodside. [3] [ failed verification ]

In 1938, the royal funeral of George Mountbatten, 2nd Marquess of Milford Haven, was held at St Michael's, after which the marquess was buried in Bray Cemetery.

Monuments

Monumental brass of Sir John Foxley and his two wives, 1378 Foxley Monumental brass in St Michael, Bray.jpg
Monumental brass of Sir John Foxley and his two wives, 1378

The church contains several brasses from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, notably that of 1378 to Sir John Foxley, the Constable of Southampton Castle. Other monuments are:

Vicars of Bray

See The Vicar of Bray for the satirical description, or The Vicar of Bray (song) for the English folk song.

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References

  1. Historic England. "Church of St Michael, Bray (Grade II*) (1312994)". National Heritage List for England . Retrieved 26 July 2014.
  2. Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland (1849). The Ecclesiastical and Architectural Topography of England. Vol. II. Bedfordshire (Berkshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Oxfordshire, Suffolk). Oxford and London: John Henry Parker. p. 59. Retrieved 27 September 2012.
  3. The Church of England "A Church Near You".
  4. Victoria County History for Berkshire. Vol III., p.107
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