St Michael's Hall is a Grade II listed building in the Windsor and Maidenhead local planning authority area, England. First listed on 25 March 1955. Chapel. 1 related planning application.
St Michael's Hall
- WRENN ID
- deep-vault-pigeon
- Grade
- II
- Local Planning Authority
- Windsor and Maidenhead
- Constituency
- Maidenhead MP: Mr Joshua Reynolds (LD)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 25 March 1955
- Type
- Chapel
- Address
- St Michael's Hall, Church Lane, Bray, SL6 2AE
- OS grid reference
- SU 901 797
- Coordinates
- 51.50934, -0.70208
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
St Michael's Hall, formerly known as the Chantry Chapel of St Mary the Virgin, is a building that likely dates from the late 13th century, with alterations made in the early 17th century and restoration in the 19th century. It is constructed of flint and Bath stone with an old tile gabled roof and has a long rectangular plan. The building is one storey high and features a small ridge chimney with clay pots. Each corner has two-stage angled buttresses.
The south front of the hall is irregular, with two square-headed doorways that have restored stone dressings; the westernmost doorway contains an early 17th-century panelled door. Between these doorways is a lancet window with 19th-century stonework. Additionally, there is a sculptured stone depicting a bull situated between the western doorway and the window. The east and west gable ends are adorned with 19th-century, three-light plate traceried windows that have pointed heads.
Inside, the hall is divided into two rooms of unequal size, a change made when it was converted into a schoolhouse in the early 17th century. This division is marked by a brick chimney stack with two back-to-back fireplaces. The interior features a wooden barrel roof that is boarded over, with a moulded wooden cornice at the wall plate level.
Local climate
St Michael's Hall sits in a drier-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 710 mm of rain a year. This makes it drier than 85% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is lower than that of 81% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 34 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 53% of listed buildings. Of these, 14 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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- Sale history — 2 transactions since 1997
- Related listed building consents — 1 application
- Detailed attributes — period, style, materials, features
- Flood risk assessment
- Radon risk assessment
- Weather exposure and heating demand — rain and frost month by month and year by year, wind direction, solar and humidity
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