CHURCH LIFE: MAR 10
Welcome
Services
Special Dates
Bellringers
Choir
Music at Bray
Personnel
Organisations
The Friends
Visit St Michael's
Publications
Annual Parochial Church Meeting Papers for 2008
St Michael's News
Sung with Passion
St John Passion
St Nicolas
Handel's Messiah
Our Vicar
Richard Cowles
View online
The Bray Society
VISITS & EVENTS
2009
Sent to Coventry
Christ Church, Oxford
Norwich and the
Norfolk Broads
2008
A Day at the Seaside
Ypres and Bruges
2007
Retirement of George
Repath, Vicar of Bray
Normandy -
City and Gardens
2006
Windsor Castle
A Taste of Normandy
2005
Belgium and
Old Holland
Lambeth Palace
John Bettley, Organist
2004
Flower Festival
Epping Forest
Champagne Region
of France
Kennet and Avon Canal
OBITUARY
John Bettley

Welcome


The website of St Michael’s – the ancient and historic church of the Parish of Bray with Braywood. Made famous (or infamous!) in proverb and folk song, the parish is widely known, because of the turncoat ways of a number of its vicars in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

There have been many changes in the parish since those times of religious and political unrest. Church buildings have come and gone, apart from St Michael’s. The origins of the Parish Church can be traced back to the year 1293, though much has happened by way of restoration and repair, since.
The boundaries of the parish have also altered over the years, no longer as widespread as once they were, parts of Windsor and Maidenhead are still within the bounds, though new parishes have been created in areas once considered part of the Parish of Bray.

Worship in St Michael’s is based on a well-established pattern within the Anglican Communion. At the early morning services of Holy Communion on Sundays we follow the Book of Common Prayer – as indeed happens at Evensong. Parish Communion at 10 o’clock on Sunday mornings is choral, the service being in the new Prayer Book, “Common Worship”, we use “Order One in Traditional Language.”

Visitors to our services are always made welcome and the church is open weekdays, during the Summer months at specified times.

£330,000 Church Appeal - Organised by The Friends of St Michael's Church in Bray
It’s hard to imagine Bray without the church. Yet that is just what may happen if urgent repairs are not carried out. Bray Church is at risk. By using the information shown below you can help raise funds towards the appeal. So why not