The best bit of our Stratford trip was undoubtedly our visit to Harvington Hall before we even got to Stratford :-)
It is a medieval and Tudor moated manor house and it is huge and wonderful.
I only took a few photos, but we hope to go back again soon and I will take loads more.
Two RC Saints are associated with Harvington; St John Wall, a priest who served the local Roman Catholics at the time of the Persecutions, and St Nicholas Owen, a diminutive man who was a skilled carpenter . Nicholas Owen created many priest`s holes in the area including some of those at Harvington, and when he was arrested in 1606, he was tortured to death in the Tower of London but never divulged any secrets relating to the hiding holes he had constructed nor of any of the RC families or priests of whom he had met.
One of the hiding places amde by Nicholas Owen was so cleverly hidden that it was only found in 1896, when the Hall was virtually derelict and about to be restored.
"Greater love hath no man than this, that he layeth his life down for his friends"
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