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.