A GLIMPSE INSIDE TWO ELIZABETHAN HOUSES

This week I take you inside two contrasting Elizabethan Houses - Benthall Hall and Old Moseley Hall. I was going to add voiceover with more detailed information on both houses, however I've had a stinker of a cold all week and aren't sounding the best lol so have left this as a more visual episode instead this week.

The Benthall family can trace it's lineage back to the Anglo-Saxon period on the site of the present hall. The first documented member of the family was Anfrid de Benetala. Two heralds are recorded as stating that they had seen deeds and charters in Anglo-Saxon that documented the family's existence here before the Norman Conquest. The first record of a house at Benthall dates to 1250 although the house we see today dates to 1580. The owners of Benthall were staunch Catholics and supported the Jacobean cause. As a result of the severe penalties incurred by recusant Catholics, they were financially unable to renovate the house with the changing fashions over the centuries. As a result, Benthall is thankully unchanged from its lake Elizabethan roots. In 1958, Clementina Benthall gifted Benthall Hall to the National Trust on the agreement that she and any successor could continue to live in the hall. Although the family don't use Benthall as a permanent residence, they do still spend time here and all of the upstairs rooms don't allow filming for this reason so I'll be showing you around downstairs and in the gardens.

As for Moseley Old Hall, this house is incredibly deceiving. From the outside you have no idea of the age of the hall. Despite looking like it was built in the Victorian era, it actually dates back to 1600 which makes it an Elizabethan House. Underneath its brick facade it was once a timber framed house. Due to years of neglect, the brick exterior was built to try and keep the house standing. Moseley Old Hall is famous as being the hiding place for King Charles II when he was trying to escape following the Battle of Worcester in 1651. When Charles was fleeing from Parliamentary troops after the battle, he sought refuge at Moseley Hall. I'll take you inside the room he slept in where you can see the King Charles bed as it is now called. I'll also show you the priest hole he had to hide in for three days while the house was being searched by Cromwells army.

Locations -
Benthall Hall https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visi...
Moseley Old Hall - https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/visi...

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