![]() ![]() You can read more about the Keystone churches and the journey of the Grail in the forthcoming book ‘When thw Trumpet Sounds’ by Mr Karl Neville on Amazon: If the Grail did journey here, as suggested, to St Michaels, it would probably have been a very challenging journey. St Michaels is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1066, when at that time it was located at the site of an old Roman cemetry. Many myths and legends surround the building of the older church. Like most churches, this current church is a replacement for a much older church. People were transient then, and with them, their possesions too. It is said that the Grail could have arrived in this area around 450 AD, in the era known as the ‘Saxon’ period when there was much migration going on from places such as Germany and Norway into the old kingdom of England. St Michael’s Church, Bray – shots taken from church porch #Does lifecraft awakening take artifact effects away windowsSadly we could noy get in but did manage to take some very presentable shots through the glass windows of the church porch. The church contains several brasses from the fourteenth to sixteenth centuries, notably that of 1378 to Sir John Foxley, the Constable of Southampton Castle. It has a number of sculptures which may have come from the earlier church, including a damaged Sheela na Gig. It was partly rebuilt ca.1500 and extensively restored in 1857–82 by Thomas Henry Wyatt. St Michaels, Bray is a grade 2 listed building and a Keystone church, dating from 1293, supposedly to replace a Saxon Church at Water Oakley. The Jesus Hospital is a red-brick group of almshouses founded in 1609 by William Goddard to house thirty-four of the aged poor of Bray and six of the Worshipful Company of Fishmongers, to which he belonged. Bray has some exclusive housing, known, in the press as ‘Millionaires’ Row’, and Monkey Island in the Thames is associated with the 3rd Duke of Marborough and houses two structures that he built and furnished with paintings of monkeys, and the architecturally grade 1 listed building, Monkey Island Hotel. The civil parish is far larger than the village itself and includes a number of other villages and hamlets, it had a population of 8,425 at the 2001 census. ![]() Day One: 12th September 2021: St Michael’s Church, Bray, Berkshire: Bray, is a large suburban village and civil parish in the county of Berkshire, sitting on the banks of the River Thames. ![]()
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