Harvington Hall
Harvington Hall is a manor house in the hamlet of Harvington, southeast of Kidderminster in the English county of Worcestershire . Featuring a ditch provided house is partly, partly in medieval in Elizabethan style kept.
Owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham, Harvington Hall is particularly notable for its hiding place for liturgical vestments and its seven priest holes , four of which around the main staircase are believed to be the work of Nicholas Owen . Ellen Ferris (1870–1955), whose son Robert was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons 1970–1974 and who later became Lord Harvington , bequeathed Harvington Hall to the Archdiocese of Birmingham.
Gallery images
Library with priest hole
Salon with priest hole
Grave of Lord Harvington and his mother at St. Mary's Catholic Church. The roof of Harvington Hall can be seen in the background.
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Individual evidence
- ^ Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Birmingham . Home> Corporate Hospitality> West Midlands ( Memento of the original from June 28, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Hudson's ( Memento of the original from February 17, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved July 19, 2009.
- ^ Julian Yates: Error, Misuse, Failure: Object Lessons from the English Renaissance . University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, Minn. 2003, ISBN 0-8166-3961-2 , pp. 187 (English, 250 p., Limited preview in Google book search).
- ↑ The Priest Hides . Official website of Harvington Hall . Retrieved October 21, 2016.
- ↑ Harvington Hall- Inside the roof hide . Tudorstuff. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
literature
- Priest Holes, moats and knots . BBC Hereford & Worster. Retrieved October 21, 2016.
Web links
Coordinates: 52 ° 22 '4 " N , 2 ° 10' 51" W.