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Harvington Hall
Oct. 22nd, 2006 04:33 pmAn unexpected afternoon visit in the rain to our (VERY) local house of interest, Harvington Hall has resulted in huge picspam!
The outside and the moat
( huge picspam... )
Harvington Hall was a Catholic house during the Elizabethan period following the reformation in England, when it was really not a good idea to be 'heretical'. In other words, if you were found to be harbouring a priest or holding Catholic Mass, your lands could be forfeited and you could be put to death if you did not recant your Catholicism. Harvington remained staunchly Catholic in spite of this risk, and the house has several really good examples of priest's hiding places. The family that lived there, were actually a branch of the Throckmortons, one of whom was one of the Gunpowder Plotters, Guy Fawkes and all that lot!
The outside and the moat
( huge picspam... )
Harvington Hall was a Catholic house during the Elizabethan period following the reformation in England, when it was really not a good idea to be 'heretical'. In other words, if you were found to be harbouring a priest or holding Catholic Mass, your lands could be forfeited and you could be put to death if you did not recant your Catholicism. Harvington remained staunchly Catholic in spite of this risk, and the house has several really good examples of priest's hiding places. The family that lived there, were actually a branch of the Throckmortons, one of whom was one of the Gunpowder Plotters, Guy Fawkes and all that lot!
