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Latitude: 51.5086 / 51°30'30"N
Longitude: -0.7021 / 0°42'7"W
OS Eastings: 490172
OS Northings: 179645
OS Grid: SU901796
Mapcode National: GBR D6R.9BV
Mapcode Global: VHDWR.SB6W
Plus Code: 9C3XG75X+C5
Entry Name: Lych Gate
Listing Date: 25 March 1955
Last Amended: 2 May 1989
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1117492
English Heritage Legacy ID: 41026
ID on this website: 101117492
Location: Bray, Windsor and Maidenhead, Berkshire, SL6
County: Windsor and Maidenhead
Civil Parish: Bray
Built-Up Area: Maidenhead
Traditional County: Berkshire
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Berkshire
Church of England Parish: Bray with Braywood
Church of England Diocese: Oxford
Tagged with: Lychgate
SU 9079
22/7
25.3.55
BRAY
CHURCH LANE
(north side)
Lych Gate (formerly
Listed as Lych Gate,
St Michael's Cottage)
G.V.
II*
Gate-house, probably a chantry-house with lych gate under. Early C15, altered early C20. Timber
frame, part render, part brick infill. Old tile gabled roof. Rectangular plan of 4 framed bays
with east wing listed separately (22/8) forming an L-plan. Jettied front and back; passage
through under with lych gate on north. 2 storeys. One tall early C20 chimney on west wall with
clay pot. Diamond-leaded casement windows. South front: gabled 4-light oriel window on first
floor with small tiled pent roof and coved apron; moulded wooden cill and 4 carved brackets. 2-
light side-sliding casement on right with folding panelled shutters on each side; archway with 4
centred head with arched spandrels, old brickwork below. North front: gabled with C19 carved
bargeboard. 3-light sliding casement oriel window on first floor with small, tiled, pent roof.
long, fixer window on ground floor with 9 turned wooden balusters in front on cill, within depth of
reveal. 4-centred, hollow chamfered wooden arch on right with moulded spandrels over lych gate.
Passage through has C17 brickwork on each side and long tension braces with entrance door on east
wall; stone setts on floor. Wooden lych gate and fence with middle rail and flat plain balusters.
Interior: good quality timber frame exposed with redundant crown post roof trusses and arched
windbraces, chamfered.
VCH (Vol. III), p.93, B.O.E. (Berkshire), p.100
Listing NGR: SU9017279645
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