Cherie's Place

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The Magna Carta Memorial Oak at Runnymede

This oak tree, planted with soil from Jamestown, Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the New World, commemorates the bicentenary of the constitution of the United States of America. It stand in acknowledgement that the ideals of liberty and justice embodied in the constitution trace their lineage through institutions of English law to the Magna Carta, sealed at Runnymede on June 15th, 1215. Planted December 2, 1987 by John O. Marsh, Jr., Secretary of the Army of the United States of America.

Tags: Magna Carta, Magna Carta Memorial, Oak Tree, Runnymede, Weekend away

12 Comments CherryPie on Sep 20th 2017

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The Savill Garden – Water Feature

Tags: The Savill Garden, Water Feature, Weekend away, Windsor

14 Comments CherryPie on Sep 19th 2017

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Cherie’s Place – Thought for the Week

For with thee is the fountain of life: in thy light shall we see light.

Psalms 36:1:9 (KJV)

Tags: Cherie's Place Thought, The Savill Garden, Weekend away, Windsor

10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2017

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Faith, Recusancy and Priest Holes

Bear with me…

Content coming soon

Update 18/09/17 – links to currently uploaded posts added below. I have some posts yet to be written. I also need to add an intro to this post

Update 25/07/23 – I still need to write the intro

People:

Imprisoned – John Gerard, Catholic Priest, 1597

John Gerard’s story told in the Salt Tower, Tower of London

The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard

Book Review

St Nicholas Owen Priest-Hole Maker by Tony Reynolds

Book Review

Blessed John Wall

Glass window dedication at Harvington Hall

Places:

Traquaire – The House

A refuge for Catholic priests

Little Malvern Priory

A safe house for Catholics with an chapel in the attic and what may have been secret access to the chapel

Moseley Old Hall

An Old Catholic family provides refuge for Charles I

Harvington Hall – Priest Hides

A tour of the priest hides in pictures and words

The Chapel – Harvington Hall

Attic chapel with a hide for ‘massing stuff’

Ye Olde Bell

Guesthouse with a secret tunnel to the nearby Priory – Used by Lord Lovelace of Hurley (a plotter of the ‘Glorious Revolution’)

Hurley Priory

History, Lord Lovelace connection and secret tunnels.

Dorney Court and its Recusancy Connections

This house reveals a recently discovered priest hole that is thought to be connect to Burnham Abbey via a secret passage.

The Old Bishop’s Palace – Ely

A prison for 32 Catholic recusants between 1588-97

Arundel

After King Henry VIII parted from the Church of Rome and declared himself Head of The Church of England missionary priests were able to continue their teachings in Arundel.

Plots:

Remember Remember…

An account of the Gunpowder Plot

The Habington Chest

Habington’s chest in the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum

The Birthplace of Guido Fawkes

Guido Fawkes, was caught in the basement of the Houses of Parliament as he prepared to ignite hidden barrels of gunpowder.

Tags: Catholic, Church of Rome, English Church, Plots, Priest Holes, Protestant, Recusancy, Recusant, Reformation

4 Comments CherryPie on Sep 17th 2017

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The Savill Garden

The Savill Garden is in situated in Windsor Great Park and was created by Eric Savill who, with a few staff started work on the garden in the winter of 1932.

Eric Savill gained the permission and support of the reigning monarch, George V, to undertake this new enterprise and a site next to an existing tree nursery – Parkside – was selected. Though not immediately obvious, the site was well chosen as the soil was generally of a sandy nature – easily worked and quick to warm up in spring – and fine forest trees, particularly the majestic oaks, provided an invaluable framework for the new garden.*

In 1951 George VI decreed that the Bog Garden should henceforth be known as The Savill Garden in recognition of Eric Savill’s great achievement, which was followed by a knighthood in 1955.*

It is a garden for all seasons, each bringing a different delight. My photographs show the garden in late summer.

*From The Savill Garden guidebook by Jarold Publishing and The Crown Estate Commissioners 2016

Tags: Eric Savill, The Savill Garden, Weekend away, Windsor, Windsor Great Park

16 Comments CherryPie on Sep 16th 2017

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Blessed John Wall

Saint John Wall, O.F.M., (1620 – 22 August 1679) was an English Catholic Franciscan friar, who is honored as a martyr.

He was born in Preston, Lancashire. When of age, he entered the English College, Douai (in modern-day northern France) in 1641, and was ordained a Catholic priest in 1645. He returned to his homeland for several years, saying Mass for the Catholics who stayed loyal to the papacy. He returned to Douai and there he entered the Order of Friars Minor, taking the name Friar Joachim of St. Ann. He was soon named Master of novices, serving in that office until 1656, when he returned to England, settling in Worcestershire. There he became a Governor (Six Master) of the Royal Grammar School Worcester.

In 1678, after 22 years of ministry to the Catholics of the nation, he was apprehended under suspicion of being a party to the Titus Oates plot and sent to the Worcester jail. His trial was on 25 April. After being sent to London he was brought back to Worcester and executed for being a Catholic priest and exercising as such.^[1]

Tags: Blessed John Wall, Harvington Hall, Martyr, Saint, St John Wall, Worcestershire

8 Comments CherryPie on Sep 15th 2017

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The Chapel – Harvington Hall

This chapel was used from about 1590 until the opening of the Georgian Chapel in 1743. It contains three features, from the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, which illustrate the gradual easing of persecution over the century and a half. At first all ‘Massing Stuff’ had to be concealed when not in use, and so, in the north-west corner, two floor-boards cover a small hide for vestments and church plate – a ’secret corner’, as opposed to a ‘conveyance’, which was a hide big enough for a man.*

During the 18th century it became the custom to use a chest-of-drawers as an altar and simply store the vestments in it. Against the north wall is a chest-of-drawers which was used in this way. and still is when Mass is said here. *

*From the Harvington Hall guidebook by Michael Hodgetts

Tags: Catholic, Chapel, Harvington Hall, Recusant

10 Comments CherryPie on Sep 14th 2017

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