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OVERVIEW | HISTORY | FAMILY | FAMILY TREE
The House appears as an
E-shaped Tudor manor house behind a warm red brick façade
with Georgian windows. Behind the Georgian exterior
is a much older collection of buildings, which have
never been completely rebuilt, including a hall dating
back to medieval times. The 17th century library has
a magnificent vaulted ceiling, an important original
collection of recusant literature, and notable sculpture.
The main public rooms, restored in the 18th and early
19th centuries from a 14th century hall contain fine
furniture, family portraits, bronzes, stained glass,
silhouettes, Italian pictures and drawings and a growing
collection of contemporary ceramics.
Also open to view is the room, roof space and priest
hole occupied by St. Edmund Campion, Jesuit and martyr,
and his companions in the 1580's. They were given refuge
in the House in order to print in great secrecy the
famous "Ten Reasons" pamphlet arguing against
the Established Church of the time. A permanent exhibition
describes this turbulent chapter in the history of Stonor
and of the Stonor family.
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