Explore 2,000 years of Kelvedon Hall’s history. Mentioned in the Domesday book the estate was owned by Westminster Abbey. Once a medieval manor house, it was replaced by a grand Georgian gentry house. Find out about the architecture of both buildings. Discover the story of the Wright family who owned the hall for twelve generations. In 1605, the Wrights converted to Catholicism, facing a struggle to preserve their faith and protect their property from seizure. The hall was later used as a convent and then became the home of Sir Henry “Chips” Channon — politician and socialite.
Fully illustrated talk. Kelvedon Hall is in Kelvedon Hatch
Views: 134 | Enquiries: 0I have always had an interest in history, local history and family history. In the 1980s I studied at the Open University and achieved an honours degree in history.
Since then, I have carried out a great deal of research as a writer for both print and online. For 15 years I was a self-employed genealogist which included research for the television programme Who Do You Think You Are.
I have written a book on the history of Kelvedon Hatch, and I give guided tours of Kelvedon Hall which is the subject of one of my talks.
For the last ten years I have organised a local history group, so I appreciate the difficulty of finding speakers and I thought it was now time to help out other groups and organisation by becoming a speaker myself.
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