Stonor Park – June 2024

Home to the Stonor family for over 850 years, Stonor Park is one of the oldest family homes still lived in today – but it’s no museum. As the oldest member of the Stonor family, the house has a thousand stories to tell.

As well as being architecturally fascinating each room contains a lifetime of experience and anecdote. Discover art and treasures collected from across the globe and view historic maps and documents that reveal generations of service to the country. A stroll through this house is a vivid walk through history.

Behind the warm brick façade, Stonor is actually a collection of much older buildings. In fact its origins go back to medieval times. Since then a series of additions and renovations, including the adoption of the E-shape in around 1540, have evolved into the extraordinary building you can see today.

The fortunes of the house and chapel are strongly tied to the travails of the Catholics in Britain. At Stonor there is a poignant reminder of these times in the roof space and priest hole where Sir Edmund Campion hid whilst printing the famous “Ten Reasons” pamphlet in the 1580s. (click to visit their website).

09.00 depart AMPH

Refreshments on arrival in Old Barn

Tour of Stonor House

Lunch

Tour of the gardens and free time in Lady’s Walk and gardens

Refreshments

16.00 Departing Stonor for APMH

Cost £58 PP

Tickets available at our April meeting

Image by John Sparshatt – licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0.