After four and a half centuries, is all at last forgiven?
In East Hendred in Oxfordshire a Catholic church and presbytery sit opposite each other across a pretty country lane. It is not necessarily a unique scene in England (the Throckmortons had a similar arrangement at Buckland), but it is relatively rare. The Eystons have held Hendred manor for six centuries; they retained their faith, heads and property, and against all the odds managed to keep Catholicism alive on their land. They supplemented their domestic chapel with a new church in 1865.
