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Maidenhead Deanery [as at 2002]

Benefices
- a benefice is the group of parishes supporting a paid member of clergy

Information supplied by Judith Mitchell [28th Apr 2002]

Bray and Braywood, St Michael
Clewer, St Andrew
Cookham, Holy Trinity
Cookham Dean, St John the Baptist
Dedworth, All Saints
Hurley, St Mary the Virgin, Stubbings, St James the Less, Littlewick Green, St John the Evangelist (Littlewick Green has until recently combined with Knowl Hill parish)
Knowl Hill, St Peter (is being moved into Sonning Deanery)
Maidenhead, All Saints
Maidenhead, The Good Shepherd
Maidenhead, St Luke
Maidenhead, St Andrew & St Mary Magdalen (known as St Mary's)
Maidenhead, St Peter's with St Mark's Hospital Church
New Windsor, Team Ministry: St John, All Saints, Holy Trinity, St Stephens & St Agnes
Old Windsor, St Peter and St Andrew
Waltham St Lawrence (also had a chapel under its care at Shurlock Row open until recently but may now have closed)
White Waltham, St Mary and Shottesbrooke, St John the Baptist

The ancient parishes were:

Bray, Cookham, Hurley, White Waltham, Shottesbrooke, Waltham St Lawrence, Clewer St Andrew, Old Windsor and New Windsor, St John, (details of this last church's registers are not given in Phillimore - the church was built in the 18th century but was perhaps not a parish church until Victorian times.  A church called St Andrew and St Mary's in Maidenhead has existed since the Middle Ages but was not a parish church until the mid 19th century.  It was described as a Chapel of Ease, which means that services could be held there but baptisms, marriages and burials were to be performed at the parish church - in Maidenhead's case south of London/Bath Road A4 at Bray, north of road at Cookham)

St George's Chapel Royal in Windsor Castle is not part of the Deanery but Phillimore gives details of registers. Employees of the Castle living in the Great Park still come under the care of the clergy of St George's)

Closed churches in the area:

St Paul's Maidenhead (demolished to make way for a relief road) daughter church to All Saints, Maidenhead (so may not have been a parish church) and All Saints, Braywood (again may not have been a parish church) - both the churches were built in Victorian times.  A small Victorian church also existed at Touchen End (now retired clergy housing) but probably came under Bray parish. This does not cover churches at the Windsor end of the Deanery.

updated 16th January 2003